1.5 million taxpayers were hit with a “bell of confiscations”

New overdue debts were added to AADE’s “tank” in the first two months of 2024. These amounted to 1.7 billion euros, of which 1.539 billion euros are unpaid taxes.

Also, the total number of debtors amounted to 3,878,712 natural and legal persons.

According to AADE data, the total overdue debt amounts to 107.18 billion euros. Of this debt, 26.3 billion euros are considered uncollectible with the actual overdue debt being limited to 80.85 billion euros. However, out of the 107 billion euros, in January only 4.6 billion euros – ie 4.3% – was included in some arrangement.

It should be noted that 43.1% of the old debts concern the period up to 30/11/2012,

At the same time, based on the data, 3,878,712 taxpayers appear in debt to the tax office, while compulsory measures (confiscations) have already been taken for 1,506,475. In the same period, 968 million euros of overdue debts were collected.

Since the beginning of the year, 16,000 TINs have been subjected to enforcement measures, while approximately 600,000 are still in the “target”.

It should be noted that enforcement measures include confiscation of bank accounts, mainly, which this year is also expected to be the main lever of pressure on debtors and indeed with automated procedures, since the profile of the “target’s” assets will be checked on a case-by-case basis, after of intersections in all available databases.

According to the accounting data of 2023, also, seizures in the hands of third parties exceeded 500,000 (+3.1% from 2022), while criminal prosecutions increased by 24.8% (4,063). On the contrary, there were only 564 auction programs, which are considered ineffective, as they are usually preceded by the corresponding movements of the banks

New due date

For the reference month (February), however, the new maturity reached 1.025 billion euros, while last year in the same period it had reached 996 million euros (an increase of 2.9%).

For the 2nd month, the total collections against new maturity (excluding 10 MFCs) reached 294 million euros, while in the same period in 2023 they had reached 223 million euros (increase by 32%).