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Prior hearing, self-correction and ruling requests: taxpayer rights before the Italian tax agency

The tools of Italy's Taxpayers' Rights Charter for anyone who receives an act or faces a doubt: the draft assessment and the sixty-day prior hearing, how the time bar moves, negotiated settlement and acceptance, mandatory and discretionary self-correction with their appeal deadlines, and ruling requests with their ninety-day reply period and tacit agreement.

Intermediate2 modules43 minFree course

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By the end of this course, you can…

These outcomes are the modules' own: the promise cannot say anything the course does not teach.

  • Explain what the Taxpayers' Rights Charter guarantees and where the prior hearing fits
  • Recognise which acts must be preceded by a hearing and which are excluded
  • Use the minimum sixty-day period to inspect the file and file counter-arguments
  • Work out how the time bar moves when the hearing ends close to it
  • Choose, once the act is issued, between a negotiated settlement, acceptance and appeal
  • Tell mandatory self-correction apart from discretionary self-correction, and know their limits
  • Draft a complete self-correction request and send it through a channel that proves delivery
  • Know when and how to challenge a refusal without losing the appeal deadline
  • Recognise the different kinds of ruling request and the grounds for rejecting them
  • Work out the reply period for a ruling request and the effect of silence

The programme, module by module

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  1. Module 121 minFree — no accountThe prior hearing: what to do when a draft assessment arrivesWhat you will be able to do
    • Explain what the Taxpayers' Rights Charter guarantees and where the prior hearing fits
    • Recognise which acts must be preceded by a hearing and which are excluded
    • Use the minimum sixty-day period to inspect the file and file counter-arguments
    • Work out how the time bar moves when the hearing ends close to it
    • Choose, once the act is issued, between a negotiated settlement, acceptance and appeal
    Read this module
  2. Module 222 minFree — no accountSelf-correction and ruling requests: getting an error fixed and asking before you actWhat you will be able to do
    • Tell mandatory self-correction apart from discretionary self-correction, and know their limits
    • Draft a complete self-correction request and send it through a channel that proves delivery
    • Know when and how to challenge a refusal without losing the appeal deadline
    • Recognise the different kinds of ruling request and the grounds for rejecting them
    • Work out the reply period for a ruling request and the effect of silence
    Read this module

What you take away

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  • Participant handout (PDF)

    PDF

    • Learning objectives (2)
    • Key figures (4)
    • Mistakes to avoid (2)
    • Official sources (2)

  • Exercise workbook (Word)

    Word

    • Learning objectives (2)
    • Key figures (4)
    • Mistakes to avoid (2)
    • Official sources (2)

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