Italy Uses Police State Tactics Against Tax Evaders

bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2013

The Italian authorities have been accused of resorting to police state-style tactics with the introduction of a new weapon to hunt down the nation’s many tax dodgers.

The new procedure makes it possible to scrutinise any family’s spending pattern, and compare this with what it says it earns.

Tax evasion in Italy has been a chronic problem for generations.

The authorities say the equivalent of nearly 120bn euros (£100bn, $160bn) worth of revenue is lost every year.

And the nation’s army of tax inspectors desperately needs more firepower.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 3:03 pm

Tags: big brother, economics, foreign affairs, police state, technology

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