(Tiper Stock Exchange) – “Unfortunately, we have a schizophrenic tax law full of oxymorons, that is, one law contradicts the other”. The Minister of Justice said so Charles Nordio speaking at the conference which was held at the Milan Luiss Hub, organized by the Luiss Vice President Paula Severino and promoted by the University named after Guido Carli. The aim of the initiative is “to stimulate reflection on the reform of the tax system”. Present, among others, the Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo and the Prosecutor of Milan Marcello Viola.
“If the honest entrepreneur decides to hire an army of accountants saying loror ‘I pay every last penny of taxes and I pay you and you have to let me sleep soundly’ wouldn’t be able to, because anyway some violation would be found”, continued Nordio explaining that “some violation would be found, because “the rules contradict each other and maybe by complying with one, there would be a violation of another”. So, regulatory simplification, but also preventive simplificationi.e. an agreement between the citizen and the tax-paying State, so that once an agreement has been reached on what is the tax to be paid, with a stamp of the Revenue Office and the Ministry, let the citizen sleep peacefully”. And it is precisely in the wake of this principle that we would like to speed up both tax justice and criminal justice, as well as civil justice, which we never talk about, but on which we are working tirelessly at the Ministry: that is, the simplification of procedures, the identification of competences”.
“Even with regard to the most serious crimes – concludes the Minister – let’s take corruption, the principle that was mentioned by
two thousand years ago by Tacitus the more the Republic is corrupt and more churns out laws And the more laws it churns out, the more it becomes corrupted, the more laws it churns out, the more it complicates the procedures and the more it increases the doors on which the citizen has to knock to obtain a measure and by increasing this number, it is very probable that the possibility of arriving at a lock that cannot be reached will increase opens, until a person comes along and tells you that you have to break it. This is where the corruption system lurks, in the uncertainty of legislation and responsibilities, in the complexity of procedures and in this sense the sanctioning system of our reform intends to go all the way”.