Panama papers, the revenue Agency investigates about 700 persons – Rai News

And’ the outcome of the work of JITSIC, the international task force of experts in tax, which investigates the massive evasion

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January 21, 2017there Are 700, so far, the subjects in Italy, on which the Revenue Agency is investigating, in the context of the Panama papers.

the Door its fruits, the work of the JITSIC (Joint International Taskforce on Shared Intelligence and Collaboration), the task force, the international tax experts investigating the massive avoidance and evasion, revealed by the International Consortium, a network of more than 300 investigative journalists. Requests for information were sent to countries where Italian subjects contained in the list hold accounts or resources, and the number of 700, so far, emerged, and is destined to grow.

The new data emerging from the meeting in paris of the task force, the third in less than a year in which the 30 financial authorities that participated in the studies have shared their conclusions on investigations of the Panama Papers, in particular on the role of intermediaries in tax, including financial institutions, consultants, lawyers and accountants, that have fostered tax evasion and tax avoidance. When it spread, in the spring of 2016, from the list of 214 thousand offshore companies in 21 jurisdictions by more than 14 thousand files of the law firm panama Mossack Fonseca emerged, among other things, the names of 140 politicians, celebrities, entrepreneurs and 12 between the heads of state and government.

In the meeting in paris, highlights the Revenue Agency, “significant results were achieved, including the development of homogeneous approaches to request the information between the partners of the treaties), and has been the in-depth knowledge of the various types of tax evasion developed by the intermediaries in the tax and of the new techniques of data analysis. Important advances were also obtained for the compliance activities, with over 1,700 checks and audits performed on taxpayers, most of 2,550 requests for information, and the identification of a list target of 100 intermediaries. A further positive effect is represented by the fact that a large number of taxpayers came forward spontaneously to declare to the Tax authorities its operations offshore. This meeting focused on the figure of the intermediaries, with the member States that have pooled tests on key subjects, thanks to the efforts made, as for example the analysis of the data, the procedure of voluntary c ooperation, the discussions with the contributors and the documentation available.