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In January the receipt lottery programmed for the first time since Budget Law 2017 and since then always postponed. After refund of money, except for surprises on December 8, the lottery with prizes of up to 5 million euros for customers and 1 million for merchants is the second step in the government’s broad plan to reduce the‘tax evasion make electronic payments more “attractive” and therefore traceable. A plan thanks to which, according to the operators of the sector, the undeclared will decrease by 0.7 billion a year and the VAT income, the most evaded tax, will increase by 800 million. But if in just one day 427 thousand citizens they downloaded the code with what to participate in the raffles, the merchants brake. And the opposition boycott the measure already tested in several countries, from Portugal to Taiwan, presenting it as a kind of Trojan horse with which the government and tax authorities will access data on citizens’ habits and consumption. A fake news, since data on purchases (with the approval of Privacy guarantor) can only be used by lottery system Dell ‘Customs agency and monopolies to generate virtual tickets and track the consumer in case of winning.
The crossfire and the fake news of Meloni and Salvini – The fact is that although it has been years to adapt, and as of 2019 a fiscal credit 50% of the purchase cost of the cash register telematic or adapt the former, not everyone is prepared. There Confesercenti affirms that today only one in three stores is equipped to allow the customer to participate in the riffa and ask for another slip, provoking the wrath ofNational Union of Consumers according to which it would be “an unacceptable joke”. Meanwhile Brothers from Italy and the League – as well as with Massimo Bitonci was the first to offer the lottery and during the yellow-green government has signed the release – evoke Big Brother. Second Giorgia Meloni registering on the lottery website means that “you will let Conte, Casalino, Di Maio, Gualtieri, the Tax Agency and the State know what your habits are, what you like, what you buy and from whom and at what time”. But the whole procedure was obviously evaluated and approved by thePrivacy authority, which requested and obtained changes and, last spring, acknowledged that the lottery code “allows the information collected to be made not attributable to a single individual without additional information and allows the consumer not to provide the operator with the tax code, from which you can also obtain information on sex, date and place of birth, It is not necessary To participate in the competition. “The opinion of the Guarantor establishes that” the data may only be used for the purposes of the lottery. “As for Salvini’s position, he invites us not to register because” we are closed at home and we also want to check what we buy “, it must be remembered that the first to present a lottery ticket in receipts was in 2011 the former Undersecretary of Economy of the League Massimo Bitonci. During the government yellow greenIn addition, the idea that had remained a dead letter since 2017 was revived, formalizing it in the fiscal decree that would come into force in January 2020. Then, the new postponement.
Traders want to postpone everything – The opposition of the merchants arises from the fact that in order for the customer to be able to participate in the lottery – and participate himself in the draws – the merchant must have the cash register configured for telematic transmission of payments (the call “electronic receipt“). Which mandatory for all, with few exceptions such as kiosks and tobacconists, from next January. Given that the replacement has a cost and that initially the same producers of the new boxes had been overwhelmed by orders, the Treasury had planned a “mitigated application“, Or without sanctions for those who did not adapt but, within a month From the issuance of the traditional receipt, he sent the payments through the free web apps made available by the Agency. The moratorium was extended for another six months with the relaunch decree. Meanwhile, merchants could get the tax credit on the expenses incurred. But now Confesercenti asks for another extension, from “at least six months“, year “Exclude thousands of commercial, restaurant and service activities that, even for emergencies COVID-19, I have not had the opportunity ”to comply.
The cross between cash back and pos obligation (never applied) – The confederation also has some for cashback, that is, the return of 10% of the expenses incurred with a card or ATM up to a maximum of 300 euros per year. Unlike the lottery, you can get it in any store or business as long as your bank or payment management system is agreement (almost all have already joined) and have adequate information system for data transmission. But for Confesercenti “between cash-back, super-return and access via smartphone procedures, the tool is not immediately understandable and runs the risk of being used only by the majority smart. At the same time, the infrastructure to facilitate electronic payments, starting with long band me terminals for payments no contact – are still insufficient. “And so we return to the usual starting point: l‘obligation of the pos, in force since 2014 but never applied with sanctions.
The government last year eliminated at the last minute Many that were provided for by the fiscal decree and the prime minister Giuseppe Conte He explained that he wanted to focus on incentives. But negotiations with banks and payment system operators resulted in a mouse, that is, the exemption of commissions just his expenses up to 5 euros. And for the merchants, 30% tax credit on commissions, taken on July 1. The result is that even today not all allow to pay with electronic tools. And now they fear that customers will go elsewhere so they can participate in the lottery and the program that returns a percentage of the money spent.
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