The income meter changes, it becomes more discreet. The Privacy Guarantor has given the green light to the new anti-evasion tool developed by the Revenue Agency, but has imposed some changes to protect confidentiality. Interventions necessary to correct the "many critical profiles" that emerged during the analysis.
In particular, to calculate the difference between the income declared and the expenses incurred and to select the taxpayers to be subjected to checks, the new income meter is based on the automated processing of personal data held by the Agency and on the attribution also of presumed expenses, determined on the basis of the automatic attribution to the taxpayer of a specific "profile".
On this front, the Guarantor imposes a drastic change of course: it will not be possible to use the estimated expenses based only on the Istat average and taxpayers' incomes will have to be reconstructed starting from certain expenses, based on the possession of goods or the use of services.
Once we get to the stage of contradictorymoreover, the Revenue Agency will have to clarify in the invitation to the tax payer the mandatory or optional nature of the additional data requested, specifying the consequences of any (even partial) refusal to reply.
On the level of communication, then, taxpayers must be informed of the fact that their personal data will also be used for income meter purposes. A warning that will be included in the information attached to the tax return model, available on website of the Revenue Agency.
The Guarantor also expressed some perplexity about the "quality and accuracy of data”, especially as regards the risk of "misalignment" of the databases to reconstruct the type of family unit referred to: "The Agency will have to pay particular attention to the quality and accuracy of the data in order to prevent and correct obvious anomalies found in the database or misalignments between the tax family and personal data”.
Finally, a clarification regarding the so-called "figurative rent”, or the rent (in black) which is attributed to taxpayers without owned homes or lease contracts in the Municipality of residence. This criterion cannot be used to select the taxpayers to be assessed, but only (possibly) after the hearing and in any case after the composition of the family nucleus has been carefully verified.
