(Finance) – The director of the Revenue Agency, Ernesto Maria Ruffinimade it known that from the various building bonuses “overall the credits subject to fraud have been around 15 billionof which 8.6 billion have been subject to preventive seizures and 6.3 billion have been suspended and discarded from the credit transfer platform since it was activated”. During a hearing at the Senate Finance Committee on Superbonus decreeRuffini explained that “not all of these were used to avoid paying the taxes“: “the credit may have been purchased by a transferee to then use it when paying taxes but the fraud may have been discovered before its use so there may be no damage to the treasury. But it’s a small part.”
Responding to a question about the possible involvement of entities locals in controlling the actual execution of the works in the area, Ruffini recalled that “there is the sharing of the results of the tax evasion recovery by the local authorities which can already report today”. “In this perspective – he continued –, being a phenomenon that has affected the entire national territory, there could be the involvement of local authorities through police local“. “In fact it could be the only way to trigger a virtuous cycle”, he added, but “we need a regulation and we can contribute by identifying the types of interventions”.
Come on 518 million in tax credits linked to the Bonus Aid for Economic Growth instead, frauds emerged for approximately 100 million euros. “The accrued credits resulting from the communications sent to the Revenue Agency amount to 518 million euros belonging to 13,155 subjects (data as of 12 April),” she explained. “From the risk analyzes carried out by the Agency, also in light of the seizures already carried out, the non-existent credits circulated since September 2023 amount to approximately 100 million”. “It’s about a esteem prudential for fraud net of other irregularities,” he added.