The Pre-filled Tax Return is underway: here are the news, how to do it and all the things to know to avoid making mistakes

The Pre-filled Tax Return will start on Monday 23 May, when the forms prepared by the Tax Authority will be made available. Based on the information in its possession, the tax authorities have already entered 1 billion and 200 million pieces of data.
From Tuesday 31 May it will be possible to send the declaration, accepting it as it is or proceeding with the appropriate changes and additions.
Citizens will be able to consult their model by accessing the reserved area on the Revenue Agency website with Spid, electronic identity card or national service card. From this year it will also be possible to entrust a family member or another trusted person to send their return: a novelty introduced to facilitate all those taxpayers who cannot manage the fulfillment directly.
The 2022 reporting season will close on September 30 for those who submit the 730 and November 30 for those who use the web application. A new guide, online on the corporate website, and a video, published on the YouTube channel of the Revenue, illustrate the news to consult and send your declaration.
“The pre-filled declaration – affirms the Director of the Revenue Agency, Ernesto Maria Ruffini – is enriched every year with additional data known to the Revenue Agency and is confirmed as a useful simplification: in fact it not only facilitates compliance, but also represents a guarantee for the taxpayer. For example, the automated collection of deductible expenses allows you to be aware of the benefits due, thus avoiding that some opportunities offered by the legislation are not seized. The numbers demonstrate the growing familiarity of citizens with this tool, which until a few years ago seemed unthinkable ».
Data constantly increasing
Since the start of the pre-filled return seven years ago, the number of taxpayers who sent the 730 and Income forms directly has grown to 4.2 million in 2021, triple compared to 2015 (when there were 1 , 4 million). The percentage of the 730 sent without changes is also constantly increasing, which last year stood at 22.3% of the total (in 2015 it was 5.8%). On the other hand, if we consider the number of information pre-loaded in the declaration by the Revenue Agency, we have gone from about 160 million data in 2015 to 1.2 billion this year, therefore with a level of completeness of the models available of citizens more and more.
1.2 billion data already entered by the tax authorities in the 2022 declarations
The amount of data pre-entered by the Taxpayers to facilitate compliance by taxpayers has grown and exceeds this year the quota of 1 billion and 200 million. Most of the data refers to healthcare costs, which jumped from 718 million last year to over 1 billion (+ 40%). The most significant increases are recorded in the item “credit transfers for restructuring”, with over 10 million occurrences (+ 36% compared to 2021), and “domestic worker contributions”, with 3.8 million data (+ 14%). But the most significant growth of all is represented by the data relating to school expenses – 458 thousand compared to about 4,600 last year – and by those on donations, which almost tripled and went from 550 thousand to over 1,600 thousand.
How to entrust the sending of the Declaration to another person
New for 2022 is the possibility of entrusting the management of one’s declaration to a family member. In particular, it will be possible to grant a power of attorney to the spouse or a relative (or similar) within the fourth degree through a specific model, available on the institutional website of the Agency. The model can be sent by the taxpayer (represented) directly online through the electronic services, attaching a copy of the representative’s identity card or via certified e-mail to any provincial revenue department. In the case of transmission via certified e-mail of a scan of the paper document (for example the power of attorney form signed on paper) and in the case of presentation at a counter of the Agency it will be necessary to attach a copy of the identity card of both, represented and representative.
It is also possible to choose a trusted person other than a family member – If the person to whom you intend to entrust the management of your declaration is not the spouse or a relative within the fourth degree, it will still be possible to confer the power of attorney at an office. A further simplification is then provided for people unable to go to the Agency due to pathologies: in this case the power of attorney can be presented directly by the representative, together with a certificate from the general practitioner of the represented person. The power of attorney cannot be conferred on a professional basis; moreover, each taxpayer can designate only one representative and each person can be designated by a maximum of three taxpayers. The qualifications will be valid until 31 December of the year in which they were issued.
Pre-filled even easier for the heirs, who from this year will be able to request the necessary qualification to access the family member’s declaration directly online, therefore without the need to go to the office. Finally, whoever submits the declaration as a parent, guardian or support administrator, will be able to send the request for the qualification, as well as with the usual methods, also through the online service “Delivery of documents and requests”, available in the reserved area of the Revenue website.