Compared to official estimates, Italian households and businesses will pay more taxes and contributions,as a percentage of GDP, in the next two years, while in 2024 revenues will break through the trillion-euro wall for the first time. In fact, the "real" tax burden, which has been measured as the ratio of total revenue in the state coffers to gross domestic product, will touch 49 percent in 2023 and approach 48 percent in 2024, standing at higher levels than the ones included in the latest Economic Planning, where 43.3 percent and 43 percent are indicated, respectively. There is a different way of calculation, with the Economic Planning that excludes from the count a part of the revenues, considering a reduced amount of tax revenues and thus obtaining a less "painful" final result as for the taxpayers' point of view. This is what emerges from the "Fact Checking Operation on the Economic Planning" carried out by the Unimpresa Study Center, according to which the total revenue in 2023 and 2024 is 986.1 billion euros and 1,002.8 billion euros, respectively, while the government has cut 88.1 billion euros a year in the two years under consideration.
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