Paying taxes and being honest to the
state are an "investment for the future", the director of
Italy's Inland Revenue Agency Ernesto Maria Ruffini said on
Thursday.
"Taxes are the instrument that allows us to live together and
pay for citizen services," Ruffini told Sky tg 24.
"Paradoxically, tax evasion is an asset because if you can bring
it down that means more revenue in the Treasury's coffers that
is available to Parliament and to the government to enact
desired policies," he continued.
Last week Ruffini told parliament the income revenue agency had
collected a record 20.2 billion euro in unpaid taxes in 2022.
"The propensity to evade taxes is decreasing," he told Sky tg
24, adding that is is however necessary to "attack this mountain
of resources".
The results of tax evasion efforts are "improving" but it is
necessary "to continue with seriousness and determination",
concluded Ruffini.
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