Saturday,
June 16, 2007
Tax Avoidance for Skeptical Italians
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
English have a different point of view, and delusionally feel superior.
While
the French had their Class Struggle Revolution, and the Americans their Anti
Colonialistic , Anti Monarch Revolution, the English "Great Revolution
(1688)" consisted merely of a Religious (Protestant vs Catholic) War, and
to this day still embrace their Monarchy.
The
English are "sheepishly compliant", and thus have an
incapacity to understand the skepticism and cynicism that Italians have toward
government, who they understand is in place to protect and nurture the wealthy,
and are aware that all politicians "slurp at the trough", and
thus feel no reluctance to withhold taxes.
Therefore,
Tax Avoidance/Evasion in
Telegraph.co.uk
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By Malcolm Moore
in
June
15, 2007
|
Many Italians like to joke that tax evasion is their national sport, and the latest figures show an increasing flair for creative accounting: #182 billion of tax was dodged in 2004. The figures from the treasury
show that one fifth of Romano Prodi, the prime
minister, said the level of tax evasion in Last year, there was a 49 per
cent rise in unpaid tax recovered by financial police to #2.3 billion. Silvio
Berlusconi, the former prime minister, often encourages Italians to dodge
taxes as a protest. Last month he called for a "tax strike". A quarter of Italians claim
that their salary is only #4,000 a year, while the residents of |
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