I moved to Italy in 2021 and got into the Impatriati regime (90% tax exemption).
I got an accountant, and ever since pay him €4000 per year. In 2021 he opened a Ditta Individuale for my online business.
He said that for the invoices, if my clients were not from Italy, I could issue PDF invoices using Excel, otherwise I should use the state's electronic invoices platform.
I never had any clients from Italy, so I issued all the invoices for 2021 using Excel, which he declared as my income, so no problems for 2021.
For 2022, he told me that from July 1st, 2022 I'd have to start issuing the invoices using the state's electronic invoices regardless where my clients were based.
So, until June 30th I issued all my invoices as usual, and from July 1st I issued them using the electronic invoicing platform.
I spoke to him, and sent him the Excel invoices via WeTransfer on November 2022, which he downloaded and said everything was fine.
Now, fast forward to today, I got a request from a bank for a proof of income, I went to get my tax returns from 2022, and was shocked to find that he had only declared +/1 €100,000... I went back and took a look at the invoices, and realized he had only declared the electronic invoices, "forgetting" to include the excel invoices.
I was obviously very alarmed and upset.
I contacted him, and he said there was nothing to worry about and everything was correct as the tax authorities hadn't raised any issues.
Then I said that it wasn't correct, because he hadn't included 6 months of income.
He reiterated that everything was correct, so I reminded him of the Excel invoices, and sent him a screenshot of his download confirmation.
Then, he's so dumb that he didn't noticed the screenshot showed he'd downloaded the file, and said he hadn't used the email since 2021 (even though I have various email exchanges with him using that email address up until 2023...
So, he then said those weren't valid, and that I should have issued them electronically since January 2022, and that the later July 2022 obligation only applied to other tax regimes (more BS).
I told him that was not what he had told me.
He then continued with his BS, and said "oh, those invoices were issued in dollars which is not allowed" (When at the time he said it was fine to receive the money in dollars and convert to Euros when declaring the income, or, issuing an invoice in Euros using the correct conversion rate).
I again said he had never told me this.
Finally he said "Oh, by the way, you aren't even allowed to be in that tax regime because you need to create jobs in Italy, and you haven't done it, so the best thing is do nothing, because the tax returns have been submitted and they did not raise any issues, so it's better if we do nothing" (More BS he has never mentioned to me, I have a Ditta Individuale which he set up, he was the one who set everything up and never mentioned nothing about this nonsense).
At which point I just fought "ok, I'm going to say I want to straighten things up, and pay what I owe,, If he says I shouldn't, I want to make sure I hve it written, so that he was the refusing to do it"
So I told him I wanted to pay up, and he said we could do that, but it would be worst, since if I raised my tax returns from €100K to €200K they'd ask where the money had come from, and that we didn't have valid invoices...
I said I'd do what he said I should do, he told me to do nothing...
This all happened yesterday, I had a sleepless night, as I thought everything was fine, and now I find out my accountant didn't declare €100K of my 2022 income.
I honestly don't know what to do, he has clearly showed he's willing to do the opposite of having my back, he's ready to throw me under the bus and straight up lie to save his neck...
The only thing that kinda makes me worry a bit less is the fact that from those €100K, only €10K are taxable, meaning that what I owe is something like €2000...
I'd love to simply give them the money and get this s**t over and done with, but unfortunately, after talking to various other accountants, they all told me that correcting the issue is very complicated, and that trying to fix it could raise other issues, and getting audited, which I bet they'd find other issues considering how ridiculously complex, bureaucratic and predatory the system is here...
Any advice would be great, thanks!
I got an accountant, and ever since pay him €4000 per year. In 2021 he opened a Ditta Individuale for my online business.
He said that for the invoices, if my clients were not from Italy, I could issue PDF invoices using Excel, otherwise I should use the state's electronic invoices platform.
I never had any clients from Italy, so I issued all the invoices for 2021 using Excel, which he declared as my income, so no problems for 2021.
For 2022, he told me that from July 1st, 2022 I'd have to start issuing the invoices using the state's electronic invoices regardless where my clients were based.
So, until June 30th I issued all my invoices as usual, and from July 1st I issued them using the electronic invoicing platform.
I spoke to him, and sent him the Excel invoices via WeTransfer on November 2022, which he downloaded and said everything was fine.
Now, fast forward to today, I got a request from a bank for a proof of income, I went to get my tax returns from 2022, and was shocked to find that he had only declared +/1 €100,000... I went back and took a look at the invoices, and realized he had only declared the electronic invoices, "forgetting" to include the excel invoices.
I was obviously very alarmed and upset.
I contacted him, and he said there was nothing to worry about and everything was correct as the tax authorities hadn't raised any issues.
Then I said that it wasn't correct, because he hadn't included 6 months of income.
He reiterated that everything was correct, so I reminded him of the Excel invoices, and sent him a screenshot of his download confirmation.
Then, he's so dumb that he didn't noticed the screenshot showed he'd downloaded the file, and said he hadn't used the email since 2021 (even though I have various email exchanges with him using that email address up until 2023...
So, he then said those weren't valid, and that I should have issued them electronically since January 2022, and that the later July 2022 obligation only applied to other tax regimes (more BS).
I told him that was not what he had told me.
He then continued with his BS, and said "oh, those invoices were issued in dollars which is not allowed" (When at the time he said it was fine to receive the money in dollars and convert to Euros when declaring the income, or, issuing an invoice in Euros using the correct conversion rate).
I again said he had never told me this.
Finally he said "Oh, by the way, you aren't even allowed to be in that tax regime because you need to create jobs in Italy, and you haven't done it, so the best thing is do nothing, because the tax returns have been submitted and they did not raise any issues, so it's better if we do nothing" (More BS he has never mentioned to me, I have a Ditta Individuale which he set up, he was the one who set everything up and never mentioned nothing about this nonsense).
At which point I just fought "ok, I'm going to say I want to straighten things up, and pay what I owe,, If he says I shouldn't, I want to make sure I hve it written, so that he was the refusing to do it"
So I told him I wanted to pay up, and he said we could do that, but it would be worst, since if I raised my tax returns from €100K to €200K they'd ask where the money had come from, and that we didn't have valid invoices...
I said I'd do what he said I should do, he told me to do nothing...
This all happened yesterday, I had a sleepless night, as I thought everything was fine, and now I find out my accountant didn't declare €100K of my 2022 income.
I honestly don't know what to do, he has clearly showed he's willing to do the opposite of having my back, he's ready to throw me under the bus and straight up lie to save his neck...
The only thing that kinda makes me worry a bit less is the fact that from those €100K, only €10K are taxable, meaning that what I owe is something like €2000...
I'd love to simply give them the money and get this s**t over and done with, but unfortunately, after talking to various other accountants, they all told me that correcting the issue is very complicated, and that trying to fix it could raise other issues, and getting audited, which I bet they'd find other issues considering how ridiculously complex, bureaucratic and predatory the system is here...
Any advice would be great, thanks!
