The president of the chartered accountants Claudius Siciliatti launched, during the annual meeting of the National Council of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts, the alarm on the weight of which Imu and VAT will weigh on the pockets of Italian citizens, a real sting from over 14 billion euros in 2012 and about 25 billion from next year.
According to Siciliotti, citizens and businesses will understand the extent of the "weight placed on their shoulders for the consolidation of the state budget", only when it takes place the increase of two percentage points of the VAT rate, starting from 2012 October XNUMX. This will be the "final blow" of the process of increasing the tax burden, an increase considered “absolutely irresponsible” and which will bring the tax burden to around 2013% from 46 onwards.
Siciliotti then also expressed himself regarding the spending reviews, stating that, to operate it, a "permanent task force equipped with adequate inspection and sanctioning powers is needed: an Exit Agency", therefore asking that the fight against waste be conducted with the same logic that animates the fight against tax evasion, setting up a special body with powers similar to those of the Revenue Agency
The meeting of chartered accountants was also attended by the undersecretary at the Ministry of Economy Gianfranco Polillo, according to which, if the estimates of the European Commission were to find effective confirmation, Italy would reach, as early as next year, "the balanced structural budget, two years ahead of the Fiscal Compact". Furthermore, again according to Polillo, "next year there will be a surplus of 0,5% and therefore there will be margins for using the fruit of the rigor of recent years with caution".
