The resources of the Recovery Fund "cannot be committed to a reduction in the tax burden (for example with a generalized lowering of IRPEF rates), while they are" fully usable for wide-ranging reforms, whose implementation could require non-negligible transition costs " such as "a reform of the tax authorities and collection activities and a strengthening of the digitization and innovation processes, on which the Agency has already invested considerable resources in recent years, in order to make its action more efficient and effective" This was stated by the director of the Revenue Agency, Ernesto Maria Ruffini, during a hearing on the Recovery Fund in the Finance Committee of the Chamber.
The bulk of the 'warehouse' of residual debts - 987 billion of which 41% are difficult to recover - "prevents the efficiency and proper functioning of the entire administrative action and the recovery action of the Revenue-Collection because it must take place in relation to the entire warehouse and cannot choose to identify the most collectable sums. The business is deprived of its entire strength ".
Ruffini stressed that a possible cancellation of the most 'old' debts or those that cannot be collected "will entail a cost" for the state coffers which, however, "cannot be identified without the scope of cancellation".
"If we believe that around 74 billion of stock can be collected - he added - the rest is more or less only a nominal credit, on the card".
