Only 17.7% of Uncovered Tax Evasion Collected in Italy, Audit Court Reveals

Rome: Only 17.7% of the tax evasion uncovered in Italy is actually collected, the Audit Court said Monday. Out of £72.3 billion assessed in 2024, only £12.8 billion has actually been paid, according to an analysis of state revenues conducted by the Court in the volumes accompanying the report on the General State Budget.

According to Ansa News Agency, within the overall data, it emerges that tax collections on tax rolls-the actual tax bills-are stable at 3.1%: £40.7 billion are assessed, and £1.3 billion are paid. A phenomenon for which the Court considers it “highly probable” to be “correlated with deep-rooted expectations of subsequent scrapping or the belief that subsequent enforcement action can be avoided”.