(ANSA) – VENICE, MAY 14 – Cashback and the receipt lottery had to give a lethal blow to tax evasion or, at least, drastically reduce the amount due to omitted invoicing which, in relation to the total, has an important impact. Both measures, however, were a flop. Or rather, they did not produce the desired results. To say it is the Studies Office of the CGIA of Mestre.
Cashback, for example, was even “archived” by the Draghi government which, starting from June 2021, suspended its application. Because no clear causal relationship has emerged between the incentives provided by the cashback and the decrease in tax evasion and because the cost of the measure, equal to 4.75 billion euros, appears to be significantly higher than the potential for recovery from tax evasion.
The receipt lottery, which entered into force on February 1 last year, does not seem to have aroused great interest among taxpayers / consumers. According to the data of the Customs and Monopolies Agency, if in March 2021 the monthly receipts associated with the lottery had touched the maximum peak of 25 thousand units, subsequently there was a constant contraction; last fall, the monthly number dropped to just over 5,000. It should be noted that in 2020 only of food and soft drinks, families made monthly purchases for 12 billion euros. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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