The government is thinking of changing the rules of collection, giving to the tax authorities 5 years to collect the sums due, at the end of which the unpaid tax bills would end up in the statute of limitations. He writes it today The messenger, specifying that the goal is to increase the effectiveness of the bureaucratic machine: at the moment, in fact, the Revenue Agency still has over one thousand billion euros to recover in fines, taxes and unpaid contributions.
In detail, they result 160 million tax bills still to be paid, Of which 80% refer to the period 2000-2015. And be careful: with current regulations, credits granted in 2000 will only be definitively accounted for and canceled in 22 years' time.
"It is clear that the State has not worked on the files - the prime minister recently said, Mario Draghi, justifying the amnesty included in the Sostegni decree - A state that has allowed the accumulation of millions and millions of folders that cannot be demanded needs to change something ".
The chronological criterion, however, would not be the only pillar on which to base the tax collection reform. To increase the efficiency of credit recovery, the tax authorities - again according to the project being studied by the Treasury - should also focus on the most relevant sums, in order to limit as much as possible the tax damage linked to the prescriptions.
In a recent parliamentary hearing, the director of the revenue agency, Ernesto Maria Ruffini, explained that the collection system in force today does not work for various reasons: for example, "for taxpayers who do not extinguish the debt, following notification of the tax bill or notice, it is necessary to start recovery activities at within a regulatory framework that appears cumbersome and requires the carrying out of almost indistinct activities for all types of credit registered in the register, as it is not possible to modulate the recovery action according to principles of efficiency and effectiveness. And this conditions the possibility of improving the collection results”.
