Extension to 05.31.2021 of the collection and notification activities of tax bills

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) recently issued press release no. 88-2021, which provides a preview regarding the imminent definition of a regulatory provision which will defer to 31 May 2021, the deadline for suspension of collection activities, currently set at 30 April 2021 by art. 4 of legislative decree no. 41/2021 (so-called Support Decree).

The Revenue Agency also promptly implemented the MEF press release mentioned above, informing taxpayers, through its institutional web page, regarding the extension to 05.31.2021 of:

•  suspension term, introduced starting from 8 March 2020 by art. 68 of Legislative Decree no. 18/2020 (so-called Cura Italia Decree), relating to all payments deriving frompayment slips, fromdebit noticesand fromexecutive assessment notices entrusted to the Collection Agent, as well as the sending of new files and the possibility for the Agency to initiate precautionary or executive collection procedures, such as administrative seizures, mortgages and foreclosures; deadline for suspension of the non-compliance checks that public administrations and companies with predominantly public participation must carry out, pursuant to art. 48 bis of Presidential Decree 602/1973, before making payments exceeding five thousand euros.