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Tax Pills

Where does all our tax go?

Changing times. Italy’s Revenue Agency has just launched the last information campaign advising that this year millions of citizens who will submit their annual tax return, will be also able to know how the taxes paid have been effectively distributed, either by accessing their “cassetto fiscale” or directly through the pre-filled personal income tax return.
Re-establish the sense that every single taxpayer is part of a larger project than his own door. That’s the project main objective, wanted, planned and realized by the Revenue Agency, is to improve  the sense of citizenship of millions of individuals, their feeling part, and protagonists, of a bigger project. People are too often considered only taxpayers, now they will start fully perceive their status as citizens, not only taxpayers.
The number of interested taxpayers - Approximately 30 million potential taxpayers are involved in the project, 20 of which have adopted the 730 tax-return model and another 10 million the Redditi-Income model.
How to access Revenue Agency information on how your taxes are spent - Starting from the second half of April, on the official website of the Revenue Agency, accessing your “cassette fiscal” or consulting the pre-filled fiscal statement through the web, millions of citizens will know for the first time in their history in dealing with fiscal issues how the taxes collected were effectively distributed thanks to a summary-record that contains the main item and sector of each expenditure.
Within the personal memory-note, you will find how much of the money taken from you in taxes goes on paying benefits, funding public health, social security, education, security, transport, culture, territorial protection and also the share of public debt yearly honored by the Country and, finally, how much tax revenue are addressed to the EU budget, in addition to general public administration services.
How does it works – The modality to illustrate the allocation of taxes has been elaborated on the basis of analytical data on public spending prepared by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. In addition to IRPEF, a long list of other taxes, among which the tax credits for rent, the solidarity contribution and the substitute tax on premiums, are also included in the total of taxes considered, but only if applicable.
And to prove the point, in the note sent to the media has been explained the case of a single person. This taxpayer paid 10 thousand euros in taxes for 2016. Now, he will know that 2,125 euros have been spent for social security, 1,934 euros went to health, 1,090 euros to education, 882 euros to defense, public order and security, 832 to the services provided by the Public Administration and so on.
Looking inside the personal note - "In the hope of doing something pleasant, - reads the brief introduction directed to each taxpayer – the Revenue Agency wants to give you some information. An information page with which you can summarize how the State has allocated taxes related to your 2017 tax return, for the 2016 fiscal year. Contributing to your community is essential, - it concludes - but we believe it is also important being aware of how the fiscal resources are used ".
All the main items of expenditure of the State are, therefore, summarized in a table and in a "pie chart" through which the taxpayer can concretely verify the path made by the taxes according to their 2017 income tax return.

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