Italy raised a record 19 billion
euros from the fight against tax evasion in 2016, Rossella
Orlandi, the head of inland revenue agency l'Agenzia delle
Entrate, told a Lower House committee on Wednesday.
"It's the best result ever achieved by the institution,"
Orlandi told the House finance committee.
She said the figure was a 28% increase on the 14.9 billion
recovered in 2015 and three times more than the 6.4 billion
registered in 2007.
Orlandi also told the committee that the agency had compiled
a list of around 750 Italians to feature in the Panama Papers -
leaked client information from many offshore entities.
She said that, with the help of offshore entities, these
people had presumably hidden from the Italian tax authorities
"significant activities of a financial nature and assets held in
non-collaborative countries".
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