Car type, make, model, insurance, rental. Once again the car becomes an indicator for the income meter that the taxman has decided to put back on track. With the publication in the Official Journal of the ministerial decree of 7 May signed by the Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo, incomes starting from 2016 (retroactive!) will be able to be subjected to checks for their “synthetic determination”, after the instrument had been repealed with ministerial decree 87/2018. Yesterday the sudden about-face, with President Meloni canceling the decree. But the damage is now done. The avalanche has begun its run.
Endless controversies, accusations between the government and the opposition, criticism even within the majority. It all ended – as usual – in a stalemate. Meanwhile, Codacons is right about one thing when it says that “The Redditometer is a blunt weapon already introduced unsuccessfully in the past by previous governments, and promptly abandoned for not having produced the hoped-for benefits”. “More than a measure to target tax evasion, the income meter only serves to terrorize taxpayers – explains Codacons – It is no coincidence that the instrument has been introduced into our tax system several times and promptly abandoned”.
Obviously, everyone is in favor of the fight against tax evasion, but it is undeniable that the income meter ends up being just a bogeyman. The text of the decree, in fact, said that it “identifies the information that can be used to determine the indicative elements of contributory capacity present in the archives held by the financial administration”. 11 types of family units and 5 territorial areas into which the national territory is divided were identified, on which sample surveys had to be carried out to determine the presumed expenses. A table attached to the decree also indicated “certain categories of goods and services held, in any capacity, by the taxpayer, for which the amount of maintenance expense actually incurred is not available, which is therefore determined by applying an expense minimum presumed representative of the use value of the good or service considered”.
Let’s read some more.
Expenses incurred by the spouse and fiscally dependent family members are considered to be “borne by the taxpayer”, while “expenses for goods and services are not considered to be incurred by the natural person if they relate exclusively and effectively to the business activity or to the exercise of arts and professions, provided that this circumstance is demonstrated by suitable documentation”. In the event that the conditions for which “the synthetic determination of the overall income is permitted are verified, the taxpayer has the right to demonstrate: that the financing of the expenses took place with incomes other than those possessed in the tax period, or with income exempt or subject to withholding tax as a tax, or, in any case, legally excluded from the formation of the tax base, or by subjects other than the taxpayer; that the attributed expenses have a different amount; that the share of savings used for consumption and investments was formed over the course of previous years”.
This is the text of the decree. Passed and then failed. Which everyone has read. And which has terrified because the ‘radar’ of the tax authorities to track down crafty and cunning people by making use of the spending capacity of taxpayers to trace their incomes strikes at the heart of motorists, already massacred by a thousand other problems. Deputy Minister Leo had tried to tone down the controversy, explaining that there was no gun pointed at taxpayers. And in a note, also circulated inside Palazzo Chigi, the deputy minister pointed out that there is no return to the “old income meter”. In reality the “gun pointed” was definitely there.
Then Meloni’s intervention to block – for now… – everything. But the avalanche has now started and even if in the end the income meter has ended up in nothing, panic has spread and as usual it is always the car that pays the price: how long will motorists be able to remain calm?
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