Redesigning the state machine is an emergency. Word of the Deputy Minister of Economy, Victor Grilli, heard by the House Finance Committee. And precisely because it is an emergency, the government has resorted to the decree in the reorganization of the tax agencies and overall of the territorial divisions of the Ministry of Economy, Grilli explained.
The state can no longer manage the multiple costs of state territorial structures: ”They have to be rationalized for similar but different uses“, he pointed out, recalling how the Ministry of the Economy had territorial structures for Accounting, the Department of the Treasury, for the Inland Revenue, Territory, Customs and State Property Agencies. "Basically six-seven territorial networks that are no longer justified that we no longer have the possibility to support".
''You need superior service with less resource usage. There are relatively few people with a certain expertise and dispersing them across 5-6 territorial networks is a luxury we cannot afford ”, she remarked. And for Grilli that of the government a “medium-long term spending review“. Indeed, according to the deputy minister, it is in this period of time that “improving the efficiency of the state structures can lead to savings. In the immediate term, personnel will not disappear”, but after the approval of the decree, the rules will have to “find application in the implementing decrees, in the business plans of the various Agencies and in the redesign of the agreements with the Minister of the Economy”.
The hearing provided Grilli with the opportunity to make two remarks. The first: there will be no conflict of interest between the Agenzia delle Entrate and the Agenzia del Territorio following the merger of the two Agencies provided for in the divestment decree. "Some concerns expressed, that there may be conflicts of interest in having brought the determination of cadastral income, assessment and collection back to the same Agency, seem to me to be inappropriate". According to the deputy minister it is not possible to speak of a conflict of interest “between the activities of the state, it is not like the normal use of the conflict of interest between opposing parties. In fact, these are always activities and state officials working in the same direction".
The second emphasis concerns the gaming sector, the fight against the offense and the control activity. From the games the State obtains “very large revenues. We believe that there should be even more if the fight against the offense were more effective. State Monopolies have not been as effective as we would have liked them to be in this contrast".
Grilli recalled how “the gaming business has changed a lot in 5-6 years. Today there are millions of point-to-point machines in commercial establishments that require vigilance and surveillance: can an agency with much less than two thousand people, without any territorial articulation and without an agreement with the Guardia di Finanza do something of this kind? It seems absurd to me to think so. So it can't work. The games have changed, they have a capillary territorial diffusion that it requires a capillary supervision that cannot be performed by an Agency as it is constituted, therefore we must strengthen its territorial presence and oblige all the Agencies to make use of the Gdf on the territory, otherwise without it it is impossible to be effective in the new world of games".
He spoke about the spending review today also Prime Minister Mario Monti, as part of a meeting at Palazzo Chigi with local authorities.
