Less room for income meter and financial investigations, to be used only when absolutely necessary. And more and more preventative letters: another batch will leave in October, linked to operation 730, which should have the same size as last year's shipment, when 220 letters were sent. This is what emerges from an interview released by Rossella Orlandi, director of the Revenue Agency for just over two years, in Sole 24 Ore.
The bet of the pre-compiled 730 has been won, according to Orlandi: “The pre-compiled form is today a bet won for the entire country system: the Agency that prepares it and the citizens who show that they appreciate it. The advantages are those of simplicity and exclusion from controls. We are inaugurating one new season of dialogue and partnership with citizens“. There are almost two million taxpayers who have submitted the model alone via the web service available on the Agency's website, confirms the director: "The total number of subjects who used the 2016 model in 730 is 19,9 million, against 19,3 last year. In 2016, approximately 730 million subjects transmitted the 2 directly, compared to 1,4 million in 2015. The figure for those who turned to the Cafs, on the other hand, remained unchanged”.
The bet that Orlandi is trying to win is to make both the OECD and the International Monetary Fund change their mind on the fact that Italy is a country with high evasion and low compliance. In other words: in Italy nobody likes to pay taxes. Valuable allies in the compliance operation, technology and the transition to an increasingly digital tax system. This is testified not only by the pre-compiled declaration, but also by the B2B electronic invoicing now close to full operation and the transition from a fight against tax evasion based on expense meters, income meters and bank surveys to checks based on letters of compliance and cross-examination, reverse charge and split payment.
“The free support service for electronic invoicing, made available on 1 July, is proving to be effective: just to mention a few numbers, 4.500 invoices were generated, 2.200 electronic invoices kept and more than 53.000 registered users", explained Rossella Orlandi, for example, by the way of billing.
