Setting jail terms for big tax
dodgers in the 2020 budget is a "cultural crux" for the ruling
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), M5S leader and Foreign
Minister Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday.
"We didn't want to cause a row in the last few days but there
was the question of sending a cultural signal, we have always
said that you don't fight tax evasion by picking on small tax
evaders," he said.
"The M5S couldn't allow (the government) to carry forward
measures, perhaps fair, on the small dodgers and then give up on
prosecuting the big, untouchable ones".
The government agreed overnight that tax evasion over 100,000
euros could lead to prison terms of up to eight years.
The government is still putting the final touches to the 2020
budget bill.
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