Between the evasion of the Imu-Tasi, the Tari and the non-payment of water bills, the Italians "unduly" save € 7.6 billion a year . Paying the bill - according to the CGIA of Mestre - are the municipalities and companies that deal with the management of urban waste and / or supply the water service, often controlled by the same municipal administrations where they operate.
The CGIA has estimated the evasion of Italians after having processed the latest available data from the Ministry of the Interior (for IMU-Tasi), REF Ricerche Laboratory, CRIF Ratings (for Tari) and Utilitatis (for water). "If a large part of these missed payments were recovered, says Paolo Zabeo of the CGIA - most likely there would be the possibility of lowering local taxes and water tariffs for everyone. Especially in the South, which has an impact on the total non-payment equal to 40 percent: 10.5 points more than the average recorded in the Center and 11 more than in the North ".
Despite the evasion, the blocking of increases in local taxes that took place between 2015-2018 and the cutting of transfers by the central State, the Mayors have however found a way to compensate, at least in part, for these lost revenues by acting on local tariffs. With the 2020 budget law, things are set to change. The maneuver, in fact according to the CGIA, provides for the "Reform of the collection of local entities" that will allow local administrations to recover the missed payments without waiting for the time of registration in the role of the debt or preparation of the injunction. For the CGY, this is a single assessment that - like what is already valid for the Revenue Agency - Collection at the level of tax authorities - contains all the elements of title suitable also for the attachment of the current account or of the fifth of the salary.
According to data from the Ministry of the Interior referring to 2016 (last year available), compared to 22.1 billion in total revenues, the estimate of the IMU-Tasi evasion amounts to 5.1 billion euros, of which 1.87 billions are attributable to the owners of buildings in the northern regions, 1.81 billion to those in the South and 1.4 billion to those in the Center.
With regard to the propensity to the evasion and (or the propensity to the tax gap) the figure for Calabria stands out, at 43.2 per cent, that of Campania at 38.5 per cent and that of Sicily at 36.6 per cent. The most virtuous regions, on the other hand, are Piedmont (tax gap at 21.7 percent), Lombardy (20.6 percent), Liguria (18.3 percent) and Emilia Romagna (tax gap at 17, 8 percent) which is the region where the propensity to evasion is the lowest ever
