Italian Government Is Preparing a New Tax Amnesty
The Italian government is working at a bill which would enact a new tax amnesty. The bill should be introduced to the Parliament as early as next week.
Based on certain anticipations on the contents of the new bill, undeclared foreign earnings that are reported and repatriated would be subject to 10% flat tax. Unreported foreign earnings that are reported but reinvested or kept abroad would be subject to a higher tax. In either case, the tax would apply in lieu of any other taxes due on the undeclared earnings and would definitely settle the taxpayer's position.
A similar amnesty was enacted in 2001-2022, together with tougher rules on failure to report foreign bank accounts and other foreign investments that can generate foreign income taxable in Italy. That tax amnesty had a limited success and in general foreign earnings remained significantly unreported.
