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Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini said Saturday that the Italian State's
relationship with taxpayers must be overhauled to make it less
confrontational.
He called for a "great, definitive fiscal peace" to liberate
"millions of Italians who have been held hostage for too many
years by the inland revenue agency".
The government is trying to install a 'fiscal peace' with
taxpayers to end the current situation in which the authorities
have a huge backlog tax disputes with millions of people worth
many billion euros, much of which is unlikely to ever be
collected.
Opposition parties have criticised this approach, saying it
risks helping tax evaders.
"As fare as I'm concerned, you can put total tax evaders in jail
and throw away the key," Salvini said.
"But if it's someone who has a problem up to 30,000 euros that
they've had for years, let's end it.
"We'll ask them for a part of it and write off the rest".
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