In the past there have been attempts, of various political colours, to improve anti-evasion controls. Today is the time of the income meter, which was new for 24 hours and which was quickly put back in a drawer, awaiting better times. The fate is the same, when the pressure gets too high we stop and the pattern repeats. First the MEF decree, then the news circulated rapidly and the controversies that followed, finally an address from the Deputy Minister of Economy arrived Maurizio Leo and the director of the Finance department Giovanni Spalletta to put things right. The changes are postponed to one of the implementing decrees of the tax delegation.
The words used belong to a technical language that adapts to a highly political need, that of stopping the discussion within the majority close to the European elections. The intention is indicated to “make more explicit the underlying desire to concentrate the use of the institution of synthetic determination of income based on the inductive content of elements indicative of ability to pay to cases in which the taxpayer fails to declare his income , upon exceeding spending thresholds to be determined”. More understandable translation for everyone: as explained by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniwe want to use the tool to ferret out total tax evaders, that “unacceptable phenomenon, for example, of those who pretend to have nothing but go around in an SUV, or go on holiday with a yacht, without however harassing ordinary people with invasive rules “.
What does this story teach, net of any partisan political interpretation? The backtracking with the act that stops the entry into force of the new instrument confirms that when it comes to tax evasion the stakes are always too high to make decisions that do not fuel a disorderly reaction.
There is too much distance, when it comes to fiscal controls, between reality and the perception of politics which inevitably leads to propaganda. The taxman has all the tools to control what he wants, having at his disposal over 200 databases which can cross-reference information of all kinds. But reintroducing an instrument that can make a contribution to the emergence of black crime, and which, moreover, due to the way it is constructed, protects honest taxpayers without the possibility of denial, becomes a politically insurmountable obstacle. The hope that we can talk about combating tax evasion without necessarily fighting over flag measures remains, at this point, linked to the implementation of the tax delegation. (By Fabio Insenga)
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