The Italian tax authorities and
finance police recovered over 14 billion euros in unpaid taxes
in 2015, Deputy Economy Minister Luigi Casero said Thursday.
This is an "extraordinary result", Casero said.
Part of the success could be attributed to a new system for
preventing tax evasion among small and medium-sized businesses,
the minister added.
This involved sending 65,000 letters to VAT-registered
entrepreneurs challenging their tax declarations and allowing
the 47,000 who replied to make amends.
"In this way only those who didn't reply will be
investigated," Casero said.
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