Do you feel stupid because you pay your taxes?
<<No receipt given in 4 out of 5 shops. Neapolitan record> is the title on the Corriere della Sera. How is that possible? In the end it’s only the silly like me who pay their taxes!
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Donatella Cinelli Colombini
In addition to this, as pointed out by the president of Agriturist Vittoria Brancaccio, those who do not pay taxes are also carrying our an unfair competition towards those who are honest buy offering lower prices on their price lists. 82% of unpaid taxes are in Naples, 47% in Rome and Milan, only Genova is not too bad with only10% without receipt. Increase in sales of 1000% on the day when the tax revenue officials were running riot around Naples. Porsche and Audi registered as belonging to the poor….. ISTAT talks of evasion for 50% in the tourism sector for a total of 36 billion per year. How on earth is this possible? Especially now that everyone pays with a credit card!
In the end one really thinks that in Italy it is a lot better not to pay taxes. Maybe if the risk of bein
caught out was high and the consequences of this fraudulence were to be very heavy, like in the USA where those who act this way to actually go to jail, maybe the percentage of evaders would be lower. Quite on the contrary, right from the first checks carried out an unreal situation is made evident, and this makes me, and others like me mad, as we are obsessed with forms to fill in, registrations, pay by dates….and the checks, and I am sure that regardless of all my consultants I will have made some mistakes and I will have to pay some fines.
Vittoria Brancaccio Presidente Agriturist
The sensation is that the inspections are concentrated in central-northern Italy and most of in regular activities, whereas the big tax evaders, those who are carrying out an activity but have o tight to, with moon lighting staff with no registration, are ignored by the officials.
This is the sensation that Agriturist has and that they have expressed, but it is also the statement made by the “Corriere della Sera”. In fact in 6 cities which have been inspected only one is in the south.