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Italy Gets Tough On Tax Evasion

February 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

It does look as if Italy has started to get really tough on tax evasion.  When Italy's technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti took over from Silvio Berlusconi late in 2011, he began considering ways in which to fill Italy's coffers. Monti knew Italy had to take a tougher stance on the tax evasion … [Read more...]

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Tax Police in Milan Blitz

January 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A Journalist Films the Tax Cops in Via Paolo Sarpi, Milan

There's something of an anti tax evasion blitz going on in Italy at present.  First over the Christmas vacation, tax cops descended upon the up market Dolomite ski resort of Cortina and, curiously, boosted the income of most of the businesses in the area - the same happened in Milan. Next, it … [Read more...]

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Tax Inspectors Boost Luxury Sales in Cortina, Italy

January 6, 2012 by 4 Comments
Cortina, italy - tax evaders paradise

Hard to believe, I know, but a team of 8o from Italy's Guardia di Finanza tax police generated a whopping 400% increase in sales of luxury goods in the upmarket ski resort of Cortina.  Restaurant incomes shot up by an equally impressive 300%! In actual fact, income levels in the area were … [Read more...]

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The Invisible Man is Italian

December 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A Recent Photograph of the Illusive Invisible Italian

It's true, the invisible man exists and he is Italian, and he led a life of luxury evading taxes.  He is no longer invisible though. Stories of tax evasion in Italy are legion, such the one about the guy who declared an income of €500 a year but somehow managed to run five Ferraris.  Well, … [Read more...]

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Italy’s Well-Heeled Poor

December 12, 2011 by 5 Comments
The Owner of this Floating Gin Palace Earns €20,000 a year. Not.

That levels of tax evasion in Italy are laughably high is no secret.  Mario Monti, Italy's replacement for tax-evasion encouraging Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is attempting to bring Italy's army of tax evaders to heel. One recently introduced, if not yet permanent, measure of the Monti-led … [Read more...]

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Can Italians Justify Evading Taxes?

November 28, 2011 by 1 Comment

Tax evasion is a problem which costs Italy around €180 billion a year.  One of the reasons some employers in Italy give for not paying taxes is how much it costs to employ people.  Does it really cost so much to employ people in Italy?  I decided to do some digging and find out. Here are … [Read more...]

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Clamping Down on Tax Evasion in Italy

November 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
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Tax evasion robs Italy's state coffers of something like 180 billion Euros a year.  Recently, Italy has been trying to find ways to recoup these record losses and the new Mario Monti led Italian government is looking into ways of making Italians pay more tax. Italians already pay lots in … [Read more...]

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Poor Italy

September 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Owner of this Floating Gin Palace Earns €20,000 a year. Not.

Italy is a very poor country.  Maybe Berlusconi can be blamed, but not necessarily.  Why?  Because less than 800 Italians manage to earn more than one million Euros a year.  In fact, according to an article in Italian newspaper Il Corriere Della Sera today, only 796 Italians tell Italy's taxman … [Read more...]

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A Solution to Tax Evasion in Italy – The Energy Use Tax

January 7, 2011 by 9 Comments
Would an Energy Tax Benefit Italy?

Italian's don't like paying taxes and they are very good at finding ways around paying them too. As has been claimed before on BlogfromItaly.com, tax evasion is something of a national sport in Italy. Here is a novel idea for an energy use tax which may help solve Italy's perennial tax evasion … [Read more...]

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Italy’s Abracadabra Decree

May 6, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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It is no secret that the level of public debt in Italy is frighteningly high, yet this did not stop Berlusconi and his government from promising around 8 billion Euros from state coffers to help rebuild the quake struck Abruzzo region of Italy. Others have been questioning just where exactly all … [Read more...]

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