Up to two million between payment notices, warning notices, and reminders. The collection agency is preparing to withdraw in August with a view to fair play towards both taxpayers and the professionals who assist them. A suspension intended to cover the entire month. The confirmation that the Revenue Collection Agency (Ader) will suspend “notification activity for all acts for the entire month of August except for urgent and non-deferrable acts” came from an official note from the Revenue Agency. The note aimed to reassure that the two Agencies “have managed to plan their respective activities so as to avoid any overload in the months preceding or following those for which the legislator has ordered the suspension of notifications.”
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An operation that needs to be fine-tuned in every detail, because pressing the “stop” button on notifications may not be as simple as it seems. First of all, it must be considered that notifications of collection acts do not all travel along the same channel. So while it may be relatively easy to set a timer to postpone sending acts intended for taxpayers who have a certified email inbox, the same cannot be said for those still sent in paper form. In this case, there is a need to align the intention of the Revenue Collection Agency (Ader) with the postal service provider to ensure that the synchronizations actually work correctly. This is both to avoid that from August 1 to 31 no taxpayer receives an act, also because a received notice would make much more noise than all the others stopped.
Secondly, there is another aspect that should not be underestimated. From a tax authority-taxpayer relationship perspective, the truce is helpful also because it is already unpleasant to receive a collection act, and in the middle of August it is even less so. But postponing by a month the entire volume of acts that Ader is called to process each year requires careful planning and definition of flows. For this reason, the Revenue Agency specified that “there is no evidence” of any “forcing or abnormal concentration in specific periods of the year.” Moreover, the agreement with the Ministry of Economy indicates that the total volumes of sending and notification for the current year range between 24 and 31 million documents: numbers that, indeed, include payment notices, warning notices, and reminders. From this, it is estimated that on a monthly basis the volumes involved amount to about two million acts in total. For this reason, the suspension operation has been carefully evaluated by the offices of the two Agencies led by Vincenzo Carbone.
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Also because it would have been counterproductive to suspend notifications in August to overload those of the “adjacent” months. On the contrary, the Revenue Agency wanted to clarify that: compliance letters scheduled for July represent 9% of the annual total; irregularity communications sent in July so far have decreased by 40% compared to the same period in 2025 and represent 7.6% of the annual total; payment notices for the first half of 2026, which Ader is required to produce based on the loads assigned by various creditor entities, have decreased by 9% compared to the same period in 2025.
In all this talk of fair play and collaboration, the numbers of collection in Italy cannot be forgotten. Starting with the huge backlog that has accumulated since 2000 and which at the end of last year had reached 1,331 billion euros. The input in the strategies has been to shorten as much as possible the times between the delivery of loads by creditor entities. The 2026-2028 agreement with the Ministry of Economy indicates among the objectives of the Revenue Collection Agency the notification within the end of the third month following the delivery for at least 53% of the payment notices prepared based on the loads assigned by the entities, in the presence of volumes of assignments in line with ordinary dynamics. A goal to be considered as well as the target of 14.3 billion euros of total collections to be reached for 2026. Because while it is a principle of tax civility not to burden taxpayers and consultants during months dedicated to holidays and rest, it should always be remembered that taxes, contributions, and fines due (and already contested for having reached the collection phase) must be paid.
