"The provisions on cash payments and the introduction of institutions that reduce the tax burden for non-compliant taxpayers risk coming into conflict with the push towards modernization of the country that animates the Pnrr and with the need to continue to reduce tax evasion".
This was stated by Fabrizio Balassone, head of the economic structure service of the Bank of Italy's Department of Economics and Statistics in a hearing before the joint budget committees of the Chamber and the Senate on the budget law.
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"39.2 billion is for us the assessment of the gross amount of the maneuver. We will see if in the next few days there will be further reasoning on this aspect", said Fabrizio Balassone, premising that "the technical attachments to the maneuver were made available on Wednesday last: that there is some rounding that can be revised I do not exclude it".
In maneuver some of the measures not connected to the energy emergency "present critical aspects that the Bank of Italy has repeatedly reported in the past with reference to similar measures. The discrepancy in tax treatment between employees and self-employed, and within these between those subjected to a flat-rate regime and excluded, is increased", added Balassone.
"In a period of high inflation, the coexistence of a flat tax regime and one subject to progressiveness such as the Irperf entails a further penalty for those subject to the latter", she said.
