TAXES: The BIG SCAM? Rinaldi Reveals Who REALLY DOESN’T PAY (and They’re Not the Usual Suspects!)
Professor Antonio Maria Rinaldi, interviewed by Fabio Duranti, launched a harsh attack against the media narrative that paints Italians as a nation of tax evaders, calling “shocking” and “rubbish” an article in Corriere della Sera that stated that 60% of citizens do not pay taxes.
Rinaldi dismantled this thesis piece by piece. First, he emphasized how public and private employees and pensioners – a majority of the population – have taxes withheld at source. “They can’t evade taxes even if they wanted to ,” he concluded, highlighting how this category already far exceeds half of taxpayers. Added to this are the indirect taxes that weigh on all citizens without distinction: VAT and excise duties on fuel, energy bills, and every single purchase, from morning coffee to shopping at the supermarket, Rinaldi recalled.
While admitting the existence of “smart guys” – a global phenomenon, not just Italian – Rinaldi distinguishes voluntary and repeated tax evasion from the difficulty of those who, already drained by indirect taxes, struggle to meet other deadlines. For proven cases of willful and significant tax evasion, Rinaldi said he was in favor of severe penalties, including prison, citing the example of Al Capone. “If he doesn’t pay them, I have to pay his share too,” he said, following a concept of general justice.
The real scandal, according to Rinaldi, lies in the preferential treatment reserved for large multinationals, especially technology ones , which generate enormous profits in Italy while paying negligible or no taxes. This situation creates devastating unfair competition for small Italian traders, forced to bear the entire tax burden (INPS, rent, utilities). Rinaldi told the story of a small shopkeeper who cannot compete with the rock-bottom prices of online platforms, precisely because the latter evade Italian social security and local taxes. “If we multiply by millions of operations of this kind, we realize that the Italian state coffers are deprived of the revenue from these,” he declared.
This dynamic, the MEP warned, not only kills traditional commercial activities, but leads to the desertification of cities , depriving them of territorial garrisons and the human and trusting relationship that the local merchant guaranteed. The solution, for Rinaldi, is clear: those who generate income in Italy must pay taxes in Italy, "exactly as others pay," to re-establish a principle of social justice and competitive fairness.
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