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Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini call for a boycott of the receipt lottery, the purchase receipt-based reward system promoted by the government to combat tax evasion. The idea is to encourage the use of electronic payments by motivating consumers through cash prizes.
An idea that did not like the two main opposition parties, Salvini and Meloni in the first place: “They not only closed at home, they also want to check what we buy – writes the leader of the League on social networks – I do not register in the receipt lottery. “
Invitation to the boycott also of the Brothers of Italy with the president Giorgia Meloni who plays the great box of the Network with a post with a decidedly Tafazzian tone.
“Today begins the registration to participate in the shameful” receipt lottery “. If you pay with a credit card and thus let Conte, Casalino, Di Maio, Gualtieri, the Tax Agency and the State know everything about your habits, what you like , what you buy and from whom and at what time, then you participate in a “state lottery” (that is, paid for by you too). Then Conte, Casalino, Di Maio, Gualtieri, the Tax Agency and the entire State will be able to evaluate if you are buying “immoral” or if you are a socially acceptable citizen. Is your freedom so cheap? Send these beggars that we have the government to hell and do not join this humiliating game, show them that Italians do not sell their dignity and freedom to good price, unlike those who govern us ”.
It was worth bringing it back in full, given the shades. But fact checking is necessary given this output.
Lottery receipt, this is how it works
Starting by explaining what the “new” lottery is and how it develops. The drawings will be weekly and will begin in January. Therefore, from today you can register on the site “lotteriadegliscontrini.gov.it” just to get the code necessary to claim the possible winning tickets.
In practice, by showing the “lottery code” to merchants at checkout, you will receive one virtual ticket for every euro spent (up to a maximum of 1,000 tickets per single receipt). At stake every Thursday seven weekly prizes of 5,000 euros and – every second Thursday of the month – three monthly prizes of 30,000 euros. Finally, a winning ticket will be raffled with an annual prize of one million euros.
The first weekly draws of 2021 will be held on Thursday, January 14, from among all the quotas transmitted and registered by the lottery system from January 4, 2021 to January 10, 2021 until 11:59 a.m. The monthly draws will be, instead, Thursday, February 11, Thursday, March 11, Thursday, April 8, Thursday, May 13, Thursday, June 10, Thursday, July 8, Thursday, August 12, Thursday, September 9, Thursday, 14 October, Thursday, November 11, Thursday, December 9.
Those who pay with credit and debit cards have the opportunity to participate in the draw for fifteen weekly prizes of 25 thousand euros, ten monthly prizes of 100 thousand euros and 5 million euros of annual prize.
The winners of the various awards will be contacted directly by the Customs and Monopolies Agency, by registered letter or certified email. In addition, if you entered your mobile number when registering on the portal, you will also receive an SMS with the communication of the victory. You will then have 90 days to claim your winnings.
But don’t worry: you don’t need to keep the receipt to collect the prize.
Online purchases and purchases that involve a tax deduction or a deduction made through your health card (such as at a pharmacy) are not valid.
Prizes are expected for retailers: weekly from 5,000 euros, monthly from 20,000 and annually from 1 million.
In short, it seems to all intents and purposes a “win-win” game. However, the Brothers of Italy and the League pose such a spy state that Orwell pales enough to control any immoral purchases. Nothing more false. As explained by the tax office the receipt lottery does not allow tracking of your purchases. The system only receives data about the amount spent, the payment method (cash or electronic) and the lottery code. There is no descriptive data of the purchase.
There is no data profiling or analysis of spending habits: therefore, neither at the time of generation of the lottery code nor at the time of purchase, the identification of who requests and uses the lottery code. The database of lottery system of the Customs and Monopolies Agency through the information technology company Sogei SpA will use the combination of lottery code – tax code only to trace the identity of the winner of the prizes.
So why is this lottery not so popular with naysayers?
It is certainly a less unpopular anti-evasion tool than check augmentation, yet many still prefer a discount rather than paying VAT, the tax that is evaded when a payment is made without a receipt. In fact, it is one of the most avoided taxes not only in Italy but in the whole world: it is estimated that 35,000 million euros of VAT are lost each year, 26% of the total compared to 11% of the average of the other states of the EU. Only Greece and Romania are worse than Italy. A positive example is Sweden, where almost all payments are made electronically and VAT evasion drops to an average of 1.5 percent.
Lottery receipt, what happens?
There are not only lights in this new system. To participate in the lottery, merchants – who, it is worth remembering, participate in draws – require an electronic cash register and, according to the Confesercenti complaint, only one in three cash registers is ‘equipped’ to participate in the receipt lottery.
“The Covid emergency has had a very strong impact on businesses in the neighborhood between forced closures, zero turnover and an uncertain future, many businesses have not yet been able to complete the necessary investments to participate in the Receipt Lottery. Also because the adjustment of the cash registers alone will cost companies around 400 million euros: a figure difficult to sustain at the moment, with the prospect of a Christmas below expectations or even a strike due to the containment regulations of the pandemic ”.
According to Confasercenti, there are no conditions to start the Lottery from January: doing so would mean excluding thousands of consumers and small retailers from winning.
Even the rules of the lottery, for the confederation, must be recalibrated: currently, the winning mechanism is unbalanced, because it guarantees more chances of victory for those who issue more receipts. An obvious advantage for large retail giants compared to small retailers, and another distortion of competition.
It should be remembered that for 2020 a contribution to exhibitors is recognized in the form of fiscal credit for the purchase of the electronic cash register or for the adaptation of the old cash register. The bonus is equal to 50% of the expense incurred for each device, up to a maximum of 250 euros in case of purchase and 50 euros in case of adaptation.
The procedure to register and participate in the #LOTERIADEGLISCONTRINI that will begin next January 1. pic.twitter.com/IgkbYmIraR
– Tg1 (@ Tg1Raiofficial) December 1, 2020
Among the many questions that the first users have asked us commenting on the post on the official page, we read how it is possible to request even more than one lottery code by combining it with your tax code.
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