Ruffini, tax evaders in prison? There are 19 million, it is not convenient

Sold out at the Trento Economy Festival with the Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman (ANSA)

“The prison sentence for those who do not pay taxes has never convinced me. I prefer to put the tax evader in jail so that the business fails or to have him work until he repays the community? There are 19 million people who do not pay taxes. Li we have identified, but who should put them all in the cell? “. This was stated by Ernesto Maria Ruffini, director of the Revenue Agency, who presented his book ‘Uguali per Costituzione’ at the Turin Festival of Economics. History of an unfinished utopia from 1948 to today “, by Feltrinelli.
“My ideal system is one in which citizens know that those who do not pay are intercepted and the action is punished by making them pay. Who is so self-defeating as to escape?” Ruffini said.
On the pre-filled in, Ruffini added: “I don’t have updated data, but that’s okay. Every year we have surprises of how citizens become familiar with this tool”.
Next steps? “We are already pre-compiling the registers of commercial entities, the pre-compiled VAT will start next year. Every year, every month we are grappling with the new systems.
We also see which tools the legislator allows us to use, “he explained.

Source: Ansa

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