Italian authorities are using the internet to deal with tax evaders

Italian authorities intend to use the Internet to combat tax evasion, reports France 24

Ordinary Italians call not miss the opportunity to communicate and in blogs, social networks and mobile applications on them unnoticed corruption, bribery and tax evasion.

Many Italians support the initiative of the authorities themselves are included in the fight against fraud, creating a site where anyone can report the offending companies.

Tax evasion is one of the most pressing problems of the Italian economy, which caused the country's budget annually loses up to 150 million euros.

Public discontent against tax evaders increases as the debt crisis calls from ordinary Italians are more victims. Thus, residents of Italy had to accept the new package of measures to reduce the budget deficit, approved by the government, Mario Monti in December 2011. Anti-crisis program aims to reduce the budget deficit by 20 billion euros and the allocation of an additional 10 billion euros to stimulate economic growth.

Proposed by the government austerity measures include an unprecedented Italian pension reforms, according to which the retirement age in Italy will be increased to 62 years for women and to 66 for men. In addition, the government intends to abandon the annual adjustment for inflation in the calculation of pensions, as well as in 2018. raise the retirement age for women to 66 years. Also among the proposed measures - raising VAT by 2%, re-introduction of property tax, as well as reducing the cost of cumbersome state apparatus Italy.