"The rules on cash payments and the implementation of some institutions that decrease the tax burden for non-compliant taxpayers risk conflicting with the National Recovery and Resilience Plan's push for modernization and the need to continue combating tax evasion." These are the remarks of Fabrizio Balassone, director of the Economic Structure Service at the Bank of Italy, who spoke yesterday before the Joint Budget Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate about the maneuver. Targeted are the steps for increasing the cash cap and the fiscal ceasefire. During the session, experts from Via Nazionale voiced concerns about policies like the proposed flat tax "Non-energy related measures that are paid for via reduced expenses and increased revenues nonetheless have a considerable impact on the bottom line and the distribution of wealth. Several of these interventions raise concerns that the Bank of Italy has repeatedly raised in the past in relation to similar measures: the disparity in tax treatment between employees and self-employed (and, within the latter, between taxpayers subject to the flat-rate regime and excluded taxpayers) is widened ".
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