“Tax evasion finally decreases. Although they are still partial data, according to the tax gap elaborated by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in 2019 (last year available), tax evasion in our country would have dropped to 80.6 billion euros. If we use the same calculation methodology for the previous years as well, in the last 5 years the 007 of the tax authorities have “recovered” 13 billion euros ». This was supported by the CGIA Studies Office according to which “the Italian financial administration seems to have managed to find the right way to fight this social and economic scourge that has always negatively characterized our country”.
The merit, according to the Mestre artisans association, would be fiscal compliance, split payment and, starting from 2019, electronic invoicing which would have convinced several “hardened tax evaders to repent.” Not only; even the slight decrease in taxes recorded in recent years has certainly had a positive effect on the revenue front. Although it is still completely insufficient, the reduction in the tax burden has helped to reduce evasion, especially what is called survival in the jargon ”.
In this scenario, the CGIA hypothesizes that in the next 4/5 years tax evasion can be halved, aligning itself with the European average as long as it is able to “fight the underground economy with greater incisiveness”, make the giants pay taxes ” e-commerce present in our country “, to be able to” effectively cross-reference the 161 tax databases owned by the financial administration “. A non-trivial operation which, however, could lead to a structural cut in taxes and consequently to tax evasion.