The key points
- Interested taxpayers will not have to submit an application to join the amnesty
- The verification of any debts canceled must be carried out in the reserved area of the Revenue-Collection agency website
- The reference years of the amnesty are not those in which the debt matured but those in which the load was entrusted by the tax authority for collection
The great wait is bound to end in the next few hours. With the finalization of the Sostegni decree, expected in the Council of Ministers on Friday 19 March, the Government will also dissolve the last doubts on the amnesty of the tax bills. An amnesty that should result in the automatic cancellation of many of the debts entrusted to the collection agent between 2000 and 2015. Among the hypotheses that circulate the most accredited at the moment is that taxpayers who had residual debts (including of initial dispute, penalties and interest) up to 5 thousand euros.
Automatic deletion for 61.5 million folders
Once the law has come into force and if the Government confirms its intentions to drastically cut the stock of arrears of the former Equitalia, the taxpayer will not have to do anything. If the debts fall within the amnesty, it will be the financial administration itself to cancel the debts of citizens, businesses and professionals. With the hypothesis of the threshold of 5 thousand euros, the Executive is preparing to shred 61.5 million old files for a value of 70 billion euros.
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On the surface it could look like a huge figure. In reality, this would be just 7% of the Revenue-Collection Agency (Ader) inventory which currently amounts to almost one thousand billion. A number in which, however, as repeatedly reiterated in front of the parliament by the number one of Revenue and Ader Ernesto Maria Ruffini, there is a very high quota of amounts that are no longer recoverable because they are registered in the name of deceased, bankrupt or propertyless subjects.
Verification on the Agenzia Riscossione website
Not having to submit an application for cancellation, at the moment there is not even a communication from the Collection Agency that the debt has been definitively canceled. Also to avoid continuing to pay, considering the fact that none of the amounts already paid will be returned, the taxpayer will be able to check his debt situation within the reserved area of the Revenue-Collection agency. The respective statement of account will indicate whether the debt has been definitively written off.
The reference years
Beware of easy hopes. Although the number of files definitively canceled should be double the mini-amnesty up to one thousand euros of the fiscal peace 2018, the terms of reference concern – at least according to the first hypotheses circulated – the loads entrusted from 2000 to 2015. So this means that it counts the date on which the debt was delivered into the hands of the former Equitalia and not the year in which the first dispute took place or the tax year of reference. Just to be clear, a tax debt relating to one of the last tax returns submitted will not be affected by this amnesty.