The mini extension of payments to 20 July is not enough. Moving the date for tax payments further is a necessity for companies and professionals: an analysis of the situation in light of the requests from taxpayers and the responses from the Government.
Something moves, thepayment deadline announced to July 20th mitigates the grip of thetax jam on June 30th created with the measures of these months of Covid emergency 19.
Pending the amendments to the revival decree, or the so-called ter decree anticipated by the Minister of Economy and Finance Roberto Gualtieri by mid-July, allow more time, it must be emphasized that this intervention it is not enough.
Of course, the pandemic has had serious effects on the economy of the country, on the functioning of the institutions, on the activities of businesses but not least on the activities of professional firms which, in fact, act as a connection between the taxpayer and the taxman.
The mini extension of payments is not enough
All tax intermediaries, Caf, Labor Consultants, Accountants and Tax Advisers, despite the objective difficulties of the period, have always been busy, now on the front of theordinary activity consequent to the restart dictated by Phase 2, but as early as March with the important commitment to support Government activity in providing the necessary help to taxpayers.
A role that has revealed itself essential for for inform citizens and explain to them the various measures that have taken place in recent months between the dpcm and various decree laws a support of families and businesses, dai bonus baby sitter to bonus 600 euro to the Emergency Income, up to the loans guaranteed by the state and to the grants.
A not insignificant support, which however does not seem to want to be taken into account when asking to be listened to to actively contribute to accelerate the restart of the Italy system.
In fact, at the outcome of some of the measures mentioned above, a tax jam for many colleagues and taxpayers difficult to deal with, both in respecting declarative deadlines that gods payments due and the now consolidated uncertainty, already experienced several times in similar cases, on a possible extension does not help the serene exercise of its activities.
A fact that is visible to everyone, even taking into account the recent MEF press release, is that it has been announced a first partial extension to 20 July for i ISA taxpayers and for those who operate in the flat-rate regime, an extension granted by the same Ministry which, according to what was reported in the media until the day before, had denied its assent to such an hypothesis also in the Finance Commission in the Chamber.
The need for a wider extension
The question had already been raised for some time, and now again while taking note of this mini slip, the insiders they are making their voices heard.
Appeals aimed at government and institutions which, hoping to be proved wrong by future events, seem have no effect: on the other hand, there is no worse deaf than those who do not want to hear.
If those who are at the helm of our country do not understand this difficulty of having to operate under pressure and uncertainty, there is no consultation table between the Corporate and Professional Governments che have.
And in light of this autonomously we tax professionals would be forced to apply de facto and immediately a wider extension in relation to different tax obligations: think of the Lipe, the esterometers and the VAT return. Or even the electronic communication of the fees, not to mention, of course, the need to further postpone the deadline for income tax payments.
At this point, the Policy will have to demonstrate its foresight, ratifying the decision illustrated above with its own provision.
And in this sense, the recent declarations of some important members of the parliamentary majority, who have openly declared that the goal of an extension of taxes to 30 September must be welcomed.
Unfortunately, they also explain that this extension could, paradoxically, even come close to 20 July due to the intricate parliamentary process of converting the Relaunch Decree.
Among the most active representatives in this regard, Murrs Currò (M5S) and Bignami (FdI) stand out.
Would be the minimum necessary, however, at zero cost for the Treasury, if not for a few tens of thousands of euros of interest, so that we can proceed together in fulfilling the obligations in a correct form and at the right times, considering the period we are living, thus restoring a profitable relationship between the Treasury and the professional categories which, I repeat, are essential to guarantee the data flows to be drawn on to guarantee the correct functioning of the tax system machine.
Another relaxing gesture could be the renunciation by the government to take advantage of the now discounted extension to 30 June 2023 by the European Council for the instrument of split payment, another particularly thorny issue.
This mechanism created to combat VAT fraud had to be overcome by the introduction of generalized electronic invoicing and sta draining important volumes of liquidity to the economic system of our country, but we will talk about this again in the next few days.
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