Last year between laws and decrees tax law was approved 11, these legislative innovations have modified existing 110 norms; In addition, 36 ministerial decrees were made by well 138 articles; the Director of the Revenue Agency has signed 72 measures, finally the offices of the Ministry of Finance and the Revenue Agency have published 50 circular and 122 resolutions set up, altogether, by almost 2.000 pages.
The complaint, raised by the CGIA, unequivocally highlights one aspect: despite political promises, fiscal oppression is increasingly overflowing, confusing not only taxpayers, but also professionals; such as Cafs, accountants and experts from trade associations.
"With such a complex, extremely cumbersome, often contradictory and not very transparent tax system - declares the coordinator of the CGIA Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - we should not be surprised if last year 21 million taxpayers, equal to about 54 percent of the total , had an economic pending with Equitalia of less than 1.000 euros. Surely among these debtors there are also those who, probably, have not paid the car tax or the RAI license fee, but the great majority are victims of an archaic and often indecipherable tax, which in recent years has increased exponentially the risk of making formal errors following a regulatory jam that has no equal in the rest of the world ".
In addition to having a tax burden in Italy that remains among the highest in the most industrialized countries, it remains equally unacceptable that the degree of complexity achieved by the tax system discourages the free initiative and the desire to do business. In addition, the CGIA points out that it is not even more likely to be a reflection on the "layout" of the Judicial Magistrate that involves not only the staff members.
“Our tax system - concludes Zabeo - is made up of 3 actors: the legislator, the financial administration and tax justice. The Constitution confers a function on each of these subjects and no overlapping of roles is allowed. The tax commissions, however, make use of the organizational and economic structure of the Ministry of Economy and Finance to which the Revenue Agency, which is the taxpayer's counterpart, also belongs. Now, no one questions the independence and impartiality of tax judges, God forbid, the fact is that the problem exists and in the legal dispute between the taxman and the taxpayer there is an imbalance and, unfortunately, it is to the disadvantage of the latter. last".
More generally, they conclude from the CGIA, the times and costs of bureaucracy have become a pathology that negatively affects our country.
“It is no coincidence - declares the Secretary of the CGIA Renato Mason - that many foreign operators do not invest in us because of the excessive redundancy of our bureaucratic system. Incommunicability, lack of transparency, legal uncertainty and overly burdensome obligations have generated a veil of distrust between businesses and the Public Administration that will not be easy to remove in a reasonably short time. I remember that, according to a survey carried out by PROMO PA Foundation, 81 percent of companies with less than 50 employees, that is to say small ones, are forced to resort to external consultants to face this invisible enemy: of which 70 for one hundred to supplement or support the work carried out by the administrative offices that operate within the company, while the other 11 percent rely on third parties for all tasks ".
