Italian tax system: first step to rename Agency Revenue

Reform of the tax system in Italy: Equitalia, the agency that collects taxes, will be abolished by the end of year and will be replaced by Equientrate, in essence nothing will change, or better it will be seemingly a renaming. This will be an internal department of the Agency Revenue that will redeem not only the Agency but also claims of other public administrations.

The new department will have the name of Equientrate, born from the merger of Equitalia with the Agency Revenue whose rules will be included in the Stability Law 2017, also amended to be called Budget Law. The Equitalia functions, therefore, will not die completion, so as not die its methods and its claims, change will be only those who move the strings of recoveries, or the Agency Revenue. The timing of this step is not yet known with certainty.

Among the projects in the study, there is the idea of eliminating the fee completely leaving only legal interests. The goal of the abolition of Equitalia, which apparently cost too much, is to reduce the costs of recovery credits of about 30% by assigning the task of collecting to a whole state structure, but the problem remains of how to handle the approximately 8,000 Equitalia employees who should migrate within the public administration.