In the next two years, Italian families and businesses will pay more taxes and contributions as a percentage of GDP than official estimates, and revenue will break through the one trillion-euro barrier for the first time in 2024. The "true" tax burden, calculated as the ratio of total revenue in state coffers to GDP, will indeed reach 49% in 2023 and approach 48% in 2024, exceeding the levels indicated in the previous Economic and Financial Document, which were 43.3% and 43%, respectively. The difference in percentages results from the different methods of calculation, with the economic and financial document excluding a portion of the revenue from the calculation, taking into account a smaller amount of tax revenue, and achieving a less "painful" final result from the taxpayers' perspective. This is what emerges from the " Operation Fact Checking on the Def" carried out by the Study Center of Unimpresa, according to which the total revenue in 2023 and 2024 is equal to, respectively, 986.1 billion and 1,002.8 billion, while the government has cut, in the two years under review, 88.1 billion per year.