The tax authorities, there is a shortage of 88 billion a year between 2010 and 2014 – The Republic

the MILAN - The government has fired a Maneuver that has as its corollary “to the nineties”, the abolition of Equitalia and the numerous interventions on the fiscal front. The recovery from the avoidance is central to the balance of public accounts, and the performance certificate from the update note of the Def is positive with an estimate of over 12 billion of recovery “permanent,” in the course of 2016. Yet there are well-88,1 billion, more than three times the entity of the law of the Budget (27 billion), launched yesterday by the government, of the revenue diverted from the public budget on average over the period 2010-2014.

And this is the amount of the so-called “gap” relative to personal income Tax from self-employment and enterprise, Ires, Vat and Irap: the distance between what the State would have collected if all taxpayers had paid the due, and how much is gone actually in the coffers public. It is an estimate contained in the Report on tax evasion and the underground economy prepared by the Commission established with the decree of the minister of Economy, chaired by Enrico Giovannini and composed of representatives of public administrations, central and local, as well as subjects coming from the academic world and the institutions.

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“the average for the period 2010-2014, one reads in the report – the overall gap amounted to eur 88.1 billion, of those 12,4 are attributable to the component due to omitted contributions, and errors in the compile statements. Therefore, the gap resulting from the complete concealment of the taxable base and/or the tax amounted to 75.7 billion euros.”

The Report considers the ‘tax gap’ as the gap between taxes actually paid and taxes that the taxpayers would have had to pay in a regime of perfect fulfillment of the tax obligations provided by legislation currently in force, as a measure indicative of tax evasion.

The voice that escapes most at the meshes of the Tax is the Vat, which registered a value of 39,5 billion euros if one looks at only the years of 2012 and 2013. Overall, on average, in those two years, there is a gap amounting to eur 108.7 billion, of which 98,3 billion of missing tax revenue and 10.4 billion of missed revenue contribution. From 2012 to 2013 the increase in non-tax revenues amounted to 2.5 billion euro, while the dynamics of the gap concerning the income from contributions recorded a slight decline (about 280 million).

Only for the years of tax 2012 and 2013 is measured the tax gap for all the main taxes considered, and is equal to an average of 98.3 billion euros per year. In detail, the tax gap personal income Tax from self-employment and enterprise, Ires, Vat and Irap amounted to eur 89.8 billion in average in the period 2012-2013. To this estimate should be added to the approximately € 3.9 billion of the personal income Tax for the employee work is irregular, and approximately eur 4.6 billion of the Imu to real estate different from the main house. On average it is the amount of income from contributions dealt with amounts to 10.4 billion euro, of which 8 billion paid by employers and 2.4 billion to the load of the employees.