The official Istat data deny the position of Professor Gianfranco Franz who, according to what emerged in the newspaper Il Gazzettino of 17 November 2019, indicated that Veneto would be the Italian region with the highest tax evasion.
The Studies Office of CGIA in Mestre states that on the basis of official sources this thesis is unfounded.
As emerges punctually in Table 1, from the analysis of data from Istat (Report on the unobserved economy and on tax and contribution evasion - 2019 year - annexed to the 2019 Document of Economic and Financial Document Update) Veneto is placed in the bottom of the underground economy ranking (seventeenth place) with an incidence on value added of less than twelve percent (11,9%); the data refer to the year 2016, the last one available.
Furthermore, Veneto is the region where one of the 3 components of the underground economy, irregular work, is the lowest in Italy: just 3,8% of value added.
It is really embarrassing - declares the secretary of the CGIA Renato Mason - that such cloying declarations are recorded on such an important issue for our country as national cohesion, put in crisis not by understandable demands for differentiated responsible autonomy such as those presented by almost all the Regions but from prejudices and instrumental forcing.
The regional classification of the undeclared sector sees the regions of the South stand out where the incidence of the underground economy touches the 19% of the added value. Calabria (20,9%), Campania (20,0%) and Sicily (19,2%) rank at the first 3 steps of this negative podium.