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Common and regions will be able to enter current accounts of citizens. Therefore, the last veils fall on bank secrecy because after the Tax Agency and the Financial Police, from now on the local authorities will also have free access to the file of financial reports. A true revolution with potentially disruptive, if not dangerous, effects. And with the right to privacy, to name just one, at risk of violation.
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Obviously, the new incursion would aim to make, at least theoretically, more efficient the collection of taxes and duties. Instead, it appears as another invasion of the field that overlaps with, among other things, more skills. Opening the door to municipal officials and regional and provincial officials is a rule of the maxi amendment to the Simplification Decree, a rule disguised behind references and paragraphs so that it is difficult for most to understand. And, as is often the case with tax matters, he quietly ignored. In fact, however, the new rule introduced into the provision allows access to a powerful database without, however, providing control and qualification mechanisms for local authority officials who will have to take a look at the accounts. Or at least leave it to the goodwill of the local authorities to build some mechanism for the protection and control of the complex procedure from scratch.
The delicacy of the information related to banking relationships, or balances and transactions, had advised, at least until now, a very prudent use of this anti-evasion tool, selecting the subjects authorized to access sensitive data. The Guardia di Finanza itself did not have direct access to said information, and must necessarily obtain the green light from the Tax Agency. Very few high-level and highly tracked officials able to open files to view monthly income and expenses, financial investments, salaries, postal books, collections and deposits. Protections and mechanisms studied ad ho to prevent dangerous violations but which are not currently indicated by any specific legislation for local authorities.
In the decree approved by the government, it is written in black and white in article 17 bis that municipalities, provinces, regions and, in general, all local authorities, to “simplify” the process of collecting their income, will be able to access no only to the registry data. tax, but also extremely sensitive, contained in the file of financial reports.
The massive entry of local authorities strengthens the “fiscal Big Brother” and dramatically expands the number of subjects in possession of control powers. Although the standard broadens the field of intervention on the one hand, it does not address a whole series of problems related to previous controls on the other. Starting, as mentioned, from the necessary authorizations for access and traceability of individual officials authorized to acquire and extrapolate information of interest to local authorities from the accounts.
But who will control the procedures? Who will supervise the municipal or regional officials? Who will be responsible for the administrative process and the offices that look for tax evaders? All questions that must be answered quickly to avoid possible distortions and, above all, to guarantee the rights of taxpayers.
The expansion of the subjects that can spy on and acquire information on the banking and financial relationships of Italians should, in fact, provide for the adoption of even more rigid and strict security measures to protect against possible unauthorized intrusions.
Regarding the content of the financial reports file, it should be remembered that in recent times it has been enriched and implemented more and more. And today, thanks to the constant electronic communications made by banks, by the Send and more generally of all financial intermediaries, it contains a huge and detailed amount of data: from the number of transactions carried out to the initial, final and intermediate balances of each individual banking relationship of each taxpayer. A fiscal Big Brother capable of supervising and supervising our lives and that must be regulated to prevent illegal acts and violations.
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