Victim of crypto ransomware? Careful not to pay taxes on it!

In recent days, the mainstream news channels have featured, quite sensationally, the hacker attack on a number of institutional websites, Italian and others, which hackers from all over the world allegedly executed by resorting to crypto ransomware. Not surprisingly, the Italian tax authorities have also taken up the issue of ransomware just days before the attack. They did so in an answer to interpello, No. 149/2023, expressing an opinion on the tax implications in a case in which a company, a victim of crypto ransomware, found itself having to pay a significant “ransom” in order to regain possession of data