Italian companies are increasingly targeted by the tax authorities: in 2017 there were 1 million and 595 thousand checks carried out by the Revenue Agency and by the Guardia di Finanza. Between analytical or partial checks, cross-checks or carried out on the street, access to the company, checks on the correct issuance of receipts and receipts or communications sent via Pec on anomalies found in sector studies, we can say that, in general, almost a company Italian out of 3 was the object of the attention of the 007 of the tax authorities.
Compared to 2016, the inspection and control activity has more than doubled, especially following the explosion of the "compliance" activity, or rather of the preventive communications with which the tax authorities asked the entrepreneurs for information on alleged inconsistencies emerged from the analysis of its tax position.
Data, those published by the Office of Studies of the CGIA, very alarming that photograph only a part of the state inspection activity in relation to the production world: in fact, in these figures do not appear the data related to the control action carried out by INPS, dall'Inail and the ASL that with equally impressive frequency continues to exert a "pressing" totally unjustified on the companies.
“Despite the announcements and promises made in recent years - affirms the coordinator of the CGIA Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - the tax oppression on companies does not ease the grip. All this is the fruit of an ideological culture that we have not yet managed to leave behind. In fact, a part of Italian politics and public administration continues to have a nineteenth-century vision of entrepreneurs. The latter are still conceived as the owners of the ironworks who carry out their business by exploiting and plundering people. This is not the case, because almost all Italian entrepreneurs are honest people who with their work have created wealth, employment and well-being and to continue to do so they ask for a friendly and more efficient state ”.
In other words, net of the control activity on safety in the workplace, the CGIA asks the new government to relax inspections and tax visits, asking to focus more attention on those who are unknown to the tax authorities, such as activities / self-employed completely in black. In addition to this, it should be remembered that our country is characterized by excessive bureaucracy that continues to hinder economic recovery.
"The times and costs of malaburocracy - says the secretary of the CGIA Renato Mason - have become a pathology that negatively characterizes our country. It is no coincidence 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 mistrust between companies and the public administration that we must remove in a reasonably short time ".
It is evident that if we do not definitively put ourselves to that inextricable labyrinth of laws, decrees and various circulars that make life impossible for millions of small entrepreneurs, we run the risk of suffocating the most important part of our economy.
In general, we increasingly need a lean and efficient public administration. In recent years, however, the cost of the bureaucracy that weighs on the production system of SMEs has exceeded, according to the latest data processed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the 30 billion euro per year: practically almost 2 points of GDP.
This situation has forced many companies to neglect their business to occupy much of the time filling out certificates, forms and various instances: an anomaly that must absolutely be removed if we want to give this country a future.
Obviously, they conclude from the CGIA, the responsibility of all this can not be "imputed" to those who work in the public. Indeed, the state are often victims of this situation, given that many workers operate with resources and resources completely insufficient.