The expenses for the mortgage and those for the rent, that for the management of a car but also the expenses made for medicines, for children at school and for the university, for bills, for telephone consumption and pay TV subscriptions: the government aims to reactivate the Redditometro and the Finance Department of the Ministry of Economy has published on its website a consultation with the categories on the draft decree - today anticipated by Il Sole 24 Ore - with the elements from which rebuilding the contributory capacity of taxpayers starting from 2016. The assessment of this instrument, which also makes use of Istat averages for food and clothing costs - would start with a 20% deviation. Among other things, there are 55 different types of typical families.
The objective of the decree is to restart this tool in order to presumptively trace the incomes of natural-person taxpayers who had in fact been blocked in 2018 when it was decided to update the parameters but also to provide that implementation would be subject to a consultation of Istat and the most representative consumer associations. They will have to submit their evaluations by 15 July.
The items of expenditure considered to trace the income concern consumption, investments, savings and expenses for economic transfers (for example the payment of the check to the former spouse). There are many items in consumption. For some chapters Istat estimates are used, considered as minimum expenses to position oneself at the limit of the absolute poverty threshold. These are expenses that also take into account the number of members and the types of families. They concern food and drinks, clothing and footwear, expenses for water and the condominium, those for ordinary maintenance of the house, expenses for the management - in terms of fuel and oil change - of a car, expenses for public transport, those for school and university, for personal care products.
It is clear that the tax authorities now have a lot of data available that they can use, from the mortgage to the rent, from the expenses for medicines and visits, to those for home helps and carers. But the data indicated for some types of bonuses will also be used, for example those for the purchase of furniture and household appliances. Or the data resulting from the payment of the car liability and the tax for cars, motorcycles, campers.
An important chapter to trace income will also be that of consumption, all data already contained in the tax registry, such as expenses for electricity, gas, heating or telephone expenses and the purchase of smartphones.
The new system, which also keeps in its data the cost of managing a horse, considered equal to 10 euros per day if retired or 5 euros if kept on one's own, will not be distracted even on expenses for hotels and travel, for the centers. wellness, for the purchase of jewelry and watches.
The ability to save will be assessed, considered as part of income not used for consumption and investments. A further chapter in which the increase in assets will be assessed in particular: that on real estate and motor vehicles, but also on shares, bonds, funds and life policies, to name just a few. Objects of art or antiques also fall into this scheme.
The mass of information will be used to carefully trace the disposable income and therefore the ability to pay. But the tax authorities will also give taxpayers the opportunity to give a contrary proof: for example, to demonstrate that the expenses were incurred thanks to income not considered or that the expenses attributed have a different amount or that the savings share used for consumption was formed in previous years.
