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ROME. New stop on tax bills, payments and foreclosures. With a decree of just two articles approved the other night by the Council of Ministers together with the Budget Planning Document and the 2021 maneuver, the restart of the collection scheduled for today until the end of the year for 9 million Italians has been suspended.
For the Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, the one launched the other night “is a substantial maneuver, which deploys a strong budgetary stimulus and aims to protect the health, work, training and economic well-being of Italians, strengthening the system from the country”. and initiate the profound change that we have been waiting for many years. In fact, it launches another 39 billion and allocates 50 billion investments by 2035 that will join the recovery fund.
As for the tax collection papers, according to Deputy Minister Laura Castelli “there is no joke about social tension. We are almost at the end of a difficult year as we never imagined and it is important to continue protecting the least, the weakest and those in need of help. We talked about it for a long time at the majority summits and in the end we decided. In addition to the 5 stars, Italia Viva sings victory (“it’s crazy to restart the files with everything that’s happening”). The Democratic Party also approves the election, while the Lega is half satisfied: according to Salvini, “the postponement is not enough. You have to delete the folders period and that’s it.
Notices and fees
In particular, the new decree further suspends payments for folders that have already reached the recipients and locks documents ready to be sent again with the restart of collection activity and executive notices. Then the installment bonds are further loosened: in fact, the number of missing installments, even if they are not consecutive, goes from 5 to 10, after which the deferral of payments is denied. The collection agent will have one more year to notify the suspended invoices and communicate the bad debt to the creditors.
Of the 8.9 million files that have been accumulated to date, 6.5 million (73% of the total) have an amount that does not exceed 1,000 euros, 1.5 million are between 1,000 and 5,000 euros and only 880,000 exceed this threshold: 1.6 million correspond to citizens of Lazio, 1.1 million in Campania and 961,000 in Lombardy.
“Well, the suspension of the notification activities of payment notes” says Codacons, which in recent days had sent a warning to the Mef and the Tax Agency, and now asks to extend the validity of the measure to the entire Covid emergency period . “Considering that the current situation will also have its effects in 2021 by preventing companies and taxpayers from facing their debts.”
Plastic / sugar tax
Still on the subject of taxes, the government – after the majority summit the other night and the protests of Italia Viva – decided to postpone the introduction of the plastic tax and the sugar tax until July 1, 2021, thus renouncing 500 million euros. collection.
