(Finance) – It is from 11 years is the average time in Italy to obtain a definitive tax sentence, against the 3 and a half years of Germany and the 5 of France. For Guglielmo Maistoprofessor of tax law and founder of Studio Maisto e Associati who presented the first edition of Report Tax leverage and competitiveness in Italy at Nicola Porro’s restart in Barithis situation causes distrust on the part of foreign companies to invest in Italy.
“It is necessary to recover decades of confusion and the absence of reforms announced several times. Thanks to the PNRR – explained Maisto to the audience – it is going to be tax justice reform passed that introducing specialized tax judges will improve the timing and quality of the judgment. In these days, work on these aspects is being finalized in parliament, and this is positive news “.
Among the data highlighted by Maisto on the need to improve the “fiscal machine”, the one on collection: in Italy for every 100 euros of taxes due, the State collects only 13, in the European rankings we are in the penultimate place in the collection, followed only by Greece, as a percentage of recovery. On this too, there are work sites open. “It is clear that in order to recover resources to lower the tax burden on businesses and support the restart it is essential to be more effective in recovering the taxes due”, concluded Maisto.