Since the beginning of the year, a total of 4933 tax evaders have hidden income of 17,5 billion euros from the tax authorities. The numbers are from the Guardia di Finanza which, in a note, explains how these subjects were completely unknown to the revenue agency, despite carrying out business or professional activities. People, explain the Fiamme Gialle, who "have lived on the backs of honest taxpayers, taking advantage of public services that they have never helped to pay for, often making assets and assets payable to front-man or shell companies".
Many rivers flow into the magnum sea of the underground economy: tax and social security evasion, the exploitation of clandestine immigration, fraud to the detriment of the social security system and above all the exploitation of irregular labour.
Since the beginning of 2013, the Guardia di Finanza has discovered 19.250 irregular workers, of which 9.252 are employed completely illegally, by 3.233 employers.
The stumbling block of the counterfeit industry still remains enormous: this year finance seized 64 million counterfeit products, of which 3 million made in Italy counterfeits. A turnover of over 700 million euros, with 400 illicit companies, 5000 perpetrators reported and 50 arrests in a sector often linked to criminal organizations.
