340 thousand incoming assessments for VAT numbers. The tax office took the wrong path

The Revenue Agency has announced its assessment target for the period 2021-2023. Self-employed workers and small VAT numbers will be hit by a kind of flood of investigations, all when the effects of the economic crisis are felt most. The “ 2021-23 performance plan ” envisages 340,000 assessments, over 100,000 per year. A nice brush for companies that often already live at the limit of their possibilities and that almost carry out a social activity.

These data are contained in the “Performance Plan” because in the end the assessments are performance, to be carried out efficiently, a bit like bullets are produced so that they have a very low price-quality ratio. In this perspective, 26% of the time of the Agency employees' time will be dedicated to law enforcement, while only just over 2.5% to the collection of tax revenues, so in the end the sums will not even be collected. . Do you know how much time is spent helping the taxpayer? 1.34%. because it is easier to repress than to help fulfillment. More than 7% of the time is expected to be dedicated to opposing appeals, which also makes us wait for a wave of assessment that is not exactly legally perfect.

The total revenue that the Revenue Agency sets itself as a target from the activities to combat tax evasion are estimated at 14.04 billion euros for the current year to then go to 15.36 billion for 2022 and 15, 32 billion for 2023 . Great, but by whom? If these figures are to be recovered from small tax payers, it will be easier to get the stones thrown in blood than to collect them. Maybe the offices will make millionaire investigations, which will bring home nothing.

We really need to change pace, at a time when the SME and the VAT number play a social function, holding firm and avoiding everyone turning to citizenship income or other forms of social support. First of all, you need to:

• multiply the assistance times dedicated to SMEs, thus saving in external consultancy by the consumer and an increase in trust in the State;
• set recovery targets, on the PMI, low, extremely low. Setting assessment collection targets is already a stretch to the limit of the acceptable, doing it on those with limited resources is socially unacceptable as well as illogical. Except that you want to create an economically and socially explosive situation;
• concentrate the activity on which, by exploiting exposed screens, that is, bringing the offices to Luxembourg or the Netherlands. There are 65,000 companies based in Luxembourg, often just post office boxes, which handle 6,800 billion of managed assets, which generate huge flows of profits that are nothing more than resources taken from the taxation of other nations.

Let us hope that the new government does not behave like those with the PD of the last 30 years. VAT numbers are a huge resource to be enhanced, not to be killed with Fisco.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/340-mila-accertamenti-in-arrivo-per-le-partite-iva-lagenzia-delle-entrate-ha-preso-la-strada-sbagliata/ on Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:38:12 +0000.