Free Trieste

Trieste, 11 April 2016 – On April 11, the Free Trieste Movement – FTM presented to the competent amministrative and judicial Courts a documented administrative and criminal complaint versus the heads of “Equitalia S.p.A”, the state-owned company  and concessionaire for tax collection on the Italian State’s behalf.

The denounce comes from Trieste and revolves on allegations of fraud in public deeds, abuse of office, fraud and extortion, at the expenses of white categories of natural and legal persons.

The reason of the complaint is that the companies of Gruppo Equitalia force the citizens and the enterprise to present the requests of suspension of enforced collection with a standard form, provided by Equitalia itself, despite no law prescribing it (Law No. 228/2012, State Budget, article 1, paragraphs 337-344), and omitting the whole, wide category of the “other cause of non-enforceability of the collection of the debt” which in turn is established by law (paragraph 338, point f). Equitalia’s omission does therefore prevent tax-payers from exercising their rights.

According to the complaint, this is a case of manipulation of official acts in order to allow Equitalia to illegale enforce the collection of taxes also in the cases that falls under the causes of non-enforceability that are deceptively left out.

The denouncing organization mentions the special case of Italian taxes levies in the Free Territory of Trieste, entrusted since 1954 to the Italian Government under a mandate of temporary civil administration, however, the problem regards all of the Italian Republic’s territory, except for Sicily, where Equitalia is not active.