Economy Minister Pier Carlo
Padoan said during a finance police event on Tuesday that
Italy's annual tax gap - the difference between the amount of
tax that should be collected and what is actually pocketed - was
107.7 billion euros during the 2012-2014 period.
But he also stressed that tax evasion was coming down, with
the propensity to evade dropping 0.6 of a percentage point from
33.5% in 2014 to 32.9% in 2015.
"This is an important change in the behaviour of taxpayers,
who are orientated towards higher fiscal compliance, confirming
the effectiveness of the government's strategy," Padoan said.
He said Tuesday that almost 5.5 billion euros of
value-added-tax evasion was uncovered in 2016, an increase of
10.8% with respect to 2015.
He said another 6.3 billion had been recovered in undeclared
personal income and 1.6 billion regarding businss tax IRAP.
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