From the CGIA Studies Office they report that in the last 20 years (1997-2017) the burden of taxes on 41 million taxpayers
Italians increased by almost 200 billion euros (198 to be precise). A figure to make your wrists tremble and that pays off immediately
the idea of how appallingly burdensome the demands of the treasury have become. And if inflation in these two decades has increased by almost 2 points
percentages, tax revenues grew by more than 65 points, or 22,5 percent more than the cost of living.
"As emerges in many financial science manuals - says the coordinator of the CGIA Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - with a load
tax evasion also takes on worrying economic dimensions. According to our analysis, in fact, the national average of tax evasion is 16,3 per cent, with peaks of 24,7 in Calabria, 23,4 in Campania and 22,3 per cent in Sicily. At the national level, we estimate that the taxes withheld from the tax authorities are just over 114 billion euros ”.
From the CGIA they let it be known that all taxes evaded at the regional level have been estimated by applying to the hidden value added a coefficient determined by the ratio between the tax revenue and the added value inferable from the national accounts, net of the economy
not observed.
"In general - reports the CGIA secretary Renato Mason - in no other European country is a fiscal effort required as
in Italy. Our civil justice is very slow, the bureaucracy has reached unbearable levels, the public administration
remains the worst payer in Europe and the logistic-infrastructural system is experiencing appalling delays: despite these inefficiencies, the request from our tax authorities is at very high levels and, for these reasons, appears completely unjustified ”.
The Italian tax paraphernalia is made up of over 100 items: a series of surcharges and stamps, from royalties to contributions, from rights to taxes to pass to withholding taxes. Obviously, there is no lack of taxes, duties and surcharges; not to mention that we pay,
unfortunately, even taxes on taxes. The most sensational example we suffer when we go to fill up our car. The tax base on which VAT is applied is also composed of excise duties on fuels.
With one day of work more than in 2018, in 2016 (the last year in which it is possible to make a comparison with EU countries) Italian taxpayers worked for the tax authorities until 2 June (154 working days), i.e. 4 days more than the average recorded in the euro area countries and 9 if, on the other hand, the comparison is made with the average of the 28 countries of the European Union.
If we compare the Italian “tax freedom day” with that of our main economic competitors, only France presents a number
days of work necessary to pay taxes significantly higher than the Italian one (+21); all the others, on the other hand, were able to celebrate the fiscal release well in advance. In Germany, for example, 7 days before us, in the Netherlands 12, in the United Kingdom 27 and in Spain 28. The most virtuous country is Ireland: with a tax burden of 23,6 percent, it allows its taxpayers to pay tax obligations in just 86 working days.
In addition to the excessive tax burden on taxpayers, the CGIA concludes, the problem in our country is also the burden of fiscal oppression that hinders daily activities, especially of small businesses. Net of the tariffs applied by the accountants for keeping the company accounts, according to a survey carried out periodically by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the cost of the tax bureaucracy for entrepreneurs (obligations, declarations, certification of payments, keeping of records, etc. ) amounts to
about 3 billion euros a year.
ECONOMY NOT OBSERVED
The unobserved economy (given by the sum of the added value attributable to the underground economy and illegal activities), in 2015 (the last year in which the data are available) produced 207,5 billion euros of taxable income subtracted from the tax authorities, giving resulting in a tax evasion of approximately 114 billion euros per year. Due to the tax infidelity of the Italians, for every 100 euros of revenue collected, the tax authorities, at national level, lose 16,3 euros.