June 20 2018
Italy’s financial crimes force has identified around a thousand tax evaders accused of dodging more than €2 million a piece in 18 months.
Collectively the fraudsters deprived the state of a record €2.3 billion between January 1st, 2017 and May 31st of this year, the Guardia di Finanza said on Wednesday.
“We’re not talking about small shop owners, artisans or entrepreneurs – who represent the economic backbone of Italy – that might have forgotten to issue a receipt,” the force said in its latest report. “We’re talking about major evaders, that is, fiscally dangerous subjects whose assets are the direct expression of their financial crimes.”