5 September 2007

98,000,000,000 tax request

I have received many letters about the news given in Genoa’s il Secolo XIX about the 98,000,000,000 euro in unpaid taxes by the concessionary companies to the detriment of the State Monopoly Agency, the structure that controls them. I’m publishing one that summarises the others.

Dear Minister,
I wanted to ask you why you don’t devote a post to the mega tax dodge of 98,000,000,000 for the State Monopoly? By now some time has gone by since the news came out on Beppe Grillo’s blog. 98,000,000,000 is an enormous sum: it’s three times the value of the gold reserves of our country, exactly what the President of the Council wanted to sell off to reduce the public debt. If they got this tax paid with interest and appropriate fines we would get to a sum of at least 150,000,000,000 euro. That is much much more than all the gold reserves of the country, and with this sum it would be possible to decisively reduce the Italian public debt that is the highest in Europe, or reduce the tax burden that is suffocating the country and economic progress! I offer you greetings and I wish you good work in the interests of the citizens.”
Francesco

To the people directly responsible: Romano Prodi, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa e Vincenzo Visco, with carbon copies to all the Ministers, I have sent a letter to be discussed at the Council of Ministers. I will publish their responses on the blog. I would point out that, according to what is written in il Secolo XIX, the Court of Accounts has asked the concessionary companies for a few tens of thousands of millions of euro in compensation for the damage suffered by the State and the director of the Monopolies has current proceedings for 1,200,000,000 euro in damages.
It’s not possible to ask citizens to pay taxes and at the same time, to not give responses in relation to 98,000,000,000 euro of unpaid tax.
Just today, an initial response to this issue has been given on the Government's website.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Economy