Enrico Maria Ruffini, the director of
the Italian tax agency, L'Agenzia delle Entrate, said Thursday
that Italy has an "unmanageable" stockpile of 1,100 billion
euros of uncollected taxes.
He told a parliamentary committee that every year 70 billion
euros of tax credits join the stockpile while only 10 billion
are paid off.
He said that, at the moment, the agency has tax-dispute cases
with around 16 million people.
"Italy is the only country in the world to have such a
stockpile," Ruffini said.
"No one has a stockpile of 22 years of credits.
"Parliament has been informed since 2015. A stockpile like this
cannot be managed".
He said various amnesties and initiatives to encourage people to
settle their cases with the tax authorities had not led to
significant reductions in the stockpile.
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