Italy is pushing payments and digital services and by this year IDPay will arrive, a platform that will allow citizens to access the bonuses and support measures that the various governments will develop in the future. The minister of technological innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, announced the new service. It will be “a platform for the provision of all social benefits, the provisional name is IDPay, all directly digitally” and you can start “already this year”, explained the minister during a forum at Ansa on digital future of payments.
Colao: less cash and more cashless
The initiative is part of a broader plan of the government which has already seen the birth of PagoPa, which in turn will manage IDPay. And it is Giuseppe Virgone, CEO of PagoPa who also announced for April the launch of the “interoperability platform” where some large public administrations such as the Revenue Agency, the Registry, the Ministry of the Interior and the INPS will engage the own data. “The battle to have less cash and more cashless is a battle to digitize the country and increase the productivity and competitiveness of small businesses,” said Colao, stressing that “there is no advantage for the country from using cash. , but there is a disadvantage ».
Digital tools in the fight against tax evasion
And digital tools, such as PagoPA, have made the country take “many steps forward”, added the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Laura Castelli, in her speech, specifying that “from a public finance point of view they have helped a lot of the recovery processes of some resources “. In fact, the same digital tools will be essential to achieve the “evasion objectives” set in the NRP. The deputy minister then indicated that cashback could be an incentive to use digital technology and could be “linked to deductions”, in particular to “advance” deductions when you pay “in a tracked manner” for an asset that provides for a deduction.
The numbers of PagoPA
Looking at the numbers, on PagoPA “63% of the payments” of the PA are made with “electronic and digital tools”, said the sole director of PagoPa, Giuseppe Virgone. “A reversal of the trend compared to the general picture because it means that the quota that belongs to cash is exceeded”, he underlined, illustrating that in 2020 PagoPA made 100 million transactions, then rose in 2021 to 182 million with an increase in 80%, while in the first two months of 2022 53 million transactions were made with a growth of 110% compared to last year. 42 million people use PagoPA.