Between 2008 and 2015 tax
collection agency Equitalia handled approximately 5.6 million
requests for payments to be made in instalments, to a total
value of over 107 billion euros, CEO Ernesto Maria Ruffini told
the Senate Finance Commission Tuesday.
In 2015 income from instalments represented approximately
50% of the total, Ruffini said.
This was in line with the previous year, he added.
Ruffini told the commission the amount of tax arrears
collected has increased notably since October 2006, when the
national tax collection system came under public control.
"During the period 2000-2005 the private concessionaires
collected on average 2.9 billion euros a year, with Equitalia
the average has risen to 7.7 billion euros a year," he said.
"The numerous legislative interventions and activity
carried out by the Equitalia group over the years have not
managed to resolve the problem of uncollected tax arrears,
leading to the creation of so-called 'bad quotas'. These
represent the 'extreme pathology' of debt collection by
inscription on the official register," Ruffini said.
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