With the new year, the revolution for the fight against tax evasion has begun. The absolute protagonist will be Serpico. Not the homonymous Frank, the Italian-American policeman celebrated by Al Pacino in the cinema, who denounced corruption in the New York police, but the supercomputer that has been chasing tax evaders for five years by cross-referencing the tax returns of Italian taxpayers with data relating to electricity and gas utilities, real estate, vehicles and boats.
From January XNUMXst, according to the provisions of the save Italy decree, the big brain will have the possibility to control current accounts and all transactions over a thousand euros. The novelty will provide tax agents with an even more powerful tool for identifying possible fraud.
Serpico, short for Taxpayers Service, with its 2.000 servers, a firepower of one million billion bytes, is able to process 24.000 pieces of information per second. The tax returns examined can now be compared with the availability in the current accounts held by the taxpayer and with the most relevant transactions. Once the suspicious cases have been identified, the computer will send a report to the Revenue Agency which will proceed with the checks.
The use of telematics to fight tax evasion has already brought great results, increasing the amount of the figures recovered from the treasury from 5 to 11 billion. The possibility of controlling how much citizens keep in the bank, in practice the end of banking secrecy, will guarantee an even higher income.
