Taxes: the black economy makes up to 50.2% – btboresette

 

There is a definite relationship between the black economy and the growth of taxes for the Italian taxpayer. It is an economy that knows no crisis. A study of CGIA Mestre reveals the link between the growth of the black-and rising taxes.

If between 2011 and 2013 the underground economy and illegal rose by 4.85 billion, coming to touch 207.3 (2013), 12.9% of GDP), says the Cgia, and net national income of the unobserved economy decreased by 36.8 billion, dropping to below 1.4 trillion, assuming that the percentage of the economy incidence observed in GDP remained the same also in the years 2013/15, the “contribution” that this “gray” economy has given the GDP in 2015 is estimated at almost 211 billion. It has an impact on the taxes we pay, the whole world of the underground economy ends up falling back on that emerged in terms of abnormal tax burden.

“In 2015,” he says Paul Zabeo CGIA, “before the operation Renzi bonus, the official tax burden in Italy was 43.7%. But the overall weight that honest taxpayers bear is actually higher and has come to touch a record level of 50.2%. ” “It is clear that a similar tax burden,” added the secretary Renato

Mason, “ will be hard to find the momentum to give breath to the economy in a phase where growth remains very weak and uncertain “. For Mestre artisans association the tax burden is the ratio between the total amount of the levy (taxes, fees, taxes and social security contributions) and gross domestic product (GDP), which refers not only to the wealth produced in a year from regular activities, but also by the “generated” by the informal sector (ie not in good standing with the tax authorities) and illegal ones which consist of a voluntary exchange between economic entities (smuggling, prostitution, drug trafficking).