Italy Pilots Tax Cheat Computer To Spot Fraud

Tax police in Italy have started using a new computer system that compares declared revenues with expenditures to crack down on tax cheats.

The "redditometro" (revenue metre) will try to recover at least a small fraction of the estimated €120bn (£103bn) in taxes dodged each year.

It will initially analyse the books over the past four years of a sample 35,000 households, including looking at mortgages, cars and even food purchases.

If it identifies a discrepancy of more than 20% between income and outgoings, the redditometro will immediately trigger a tax inspection.

Italians are famous for their high quality lifestyles

Italy has one of Europe's biggest grey economies and highest levels of cash transactions, making tax evasion a constant problem despite repeated crackdowns.

The problem is particularly acute in the services sector and police often carry out raids on shopping areas or high-class resorts that reveal massive fraud.

The new system is made up of dozens of computers that analyse databases and "can uncover the big tax evaders and the fake poor," Marco di Capua, the deputy director of the tax agency, told reporters.

The redditometro is a new version of a similar system first introduced in 2010 by then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was himself convicted of tax fraud earlier this month.

It led to the recovery of £99m in 2011 and only £26m in 2012 - a tiny amount compared with estimates of how much in reality is owed.

The new policy has been criticised by some for not going far enough and by others, mainly right-wing politicians, as a massive interference by the state.

Matteo Salvini, a deputy leader of the opposition Northern League party, described it as the type of system "used by communist and fascist regimes".

Prime Minister Enrico Letta has promised to redouble efforts against evasion and said the sums recovered would be used to lower Italy's high tax burden.

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