«Up to now the analysis and control activity has allowed the Revenue Agency and the Finance Police to identify a total amount of non-existent tax credits equal to approximately 4.4 billion. Almost half of which, around 2 billion, already sold and collected. To these 4.4 billion must be added another billion, the suspension of which is being finalized “. This was stated by the Minister of Economy, Daniele Franco, in the Chamber in the Chamber, during the urgent information on the phenomenon of fraud generated by building bonuses.
«The 4.4 billion frauds mainly concern – Franco specified – the credits relating to the facades bonus, 46% of the total, and the eco-bonus, 34%. Fraud linked to the Superbonus is relatively less widespread, thanks also to the compliance visa and certification mechanism. Contrary to the other building bonuses, the law does not provide for a maximum spending limit for the bonus, beyond which the intervention no longer enjoys the tax benefit “.
Franco: the assignment of building credits has allowed offenses
“The strengthening of building concessions, and the facilitation of credit transfers, aimed to increase the quality and energy efficiency of the housing stock and to support the construction sector as a key player in the recovery of the country”, but the intervention for the sale of credits “nevertheless allowed the emergence of conditions particularly permeable to illicit behavior”, and fraud with potential damage to the treasury “deriving from false assignments has assumed extremely significant proportions”, said the Minister of Economy, recalling that “the relevance of fraud “prompted the government to activate” countermeasures to prevent illegal behavior “.
Bonuses are not in question, but illicit trade transfers
“The relevance and diffusion of fraud – the minister observed again – does not question the usefulness of the instrument of tax bonuses and their transfer, but has imposed, to protect the accounts of the State and taxpayers, countermeasures aimed at contrasting and to prevent unlawful conduct and to allow honest citizens to benefit from the facilitating measure “. The minister highlighted the birth of a” market for unregulated credits “, due to the absence, before the corrective interventions of the Government, of” specific safeguards guarantee, such as compliance visas for the existence of the conditions for the right to tax deduction “. And this, he pointed out, “transformed tax credits into a sort of circulating security, giving sight to an unregulated credit market in which the connection with the jobs that originated them could become labile if not completely absent. “.
“The sales have recorded a sharp increase since September 2021 – he reported – on average about 2.5 billion per month in June, July, August, in September the sales rose to 4.4 billion, and reached a value of 7 billion. in December. Overall between September and December 23.6 billion was sold compared to 11.4 in the January-August period ».