Italy is one of the European countries with the highest tax rates, taxing, in some cases, up to 43% of the proceeds of a person. Also is one of the European Union countries with the highest rates of evasion by the people. To give an example of this, the owner of my apartment charge me a little more (almost double) than our lease says to evade taxes, plus cash to cash provided there are no traces of that money. This behavior has evader to form a vicious circle in which people invent new ever more ingenious ways to evade taxes while the government rises to compensate for what fails to collect, to the point now where level of taxes paid has now made that both the previous government, like the present, including in its agenda of tax reduction. The truth is that ordinary people, the petty bureaucrat or business employee, who holds the Italian state to pay their taxes. How?, Very simple, direct discounting of pay, while large business owners and politicians evade most important one way or another to pay them, since the former may pay financial advisors to avoid paying, while the latter make laws and rules that exempt.
However, all these taxes fall within the Keynesian idea of \u200b\u200bredistribution of wealth, ie, the state retains some of your money to carry out works we should benefit everyone, such as schools, roads, hospitals and others. Also in this category are grants to individuals (natural or otherwise), maintenance of the bureaucracy, paying salaries to leaders killed, etc.., Etc. etc. This idea would be very noble if we ask the taxpayers if we want to take away that money, or if we could control those costs, or if they take away money is not wasted. We all know that it is not. Conversely, if the Italian state was a company should sue for breach of contract, waste of money and so on, and should return our money. That, as you can imagine, it is not.
The regular reader of this blog may be wondering what is the string point of this anti-tax, which criticized the incompetence of the Italian state 1. The reason is very simple: Italian newspapers have been publishing articles and reports in which the contempt is palpable Italian politicians by intelligence of us, the taxpayers, regardless of the ideologies they represent.
Here I am referring is a minor inconvenience that had the Prime Minister Romano Prodi and the Catholic Church because it gave a statement to the weekly Catholic "Famiglia Cristiana" in early August in which he invited the church to put their two cents in the government's fight against tax evasion. How?, Using the Sunday homily to remind the faithful that it is a sin to evade taxes, or at least it's much more ethical pay 2. While in Italy, the response was swift from both the opposition and government supporters and the church. I will not go into details about what the opposition said, as the higher tax evaders are right (as Silvio Berlusconi, for example), but some members said Prodi branded crazy and said it best not to put the church in that package. Instead, I will translate the overwhelming response given by the Father Giorgio Murano within the pages of the magazine named as:
I think it's really useless to say more, because this priest briefly summarizes the discontent of those who live in this country to the state, regardless of political affiliation. Although the question arises: what is less civic evade taxes or waste them?
However, all these taxes fall within the Keynesian idea of \u200b\u200bredistribution of wealth, ie, the state retains some of your money to carry out works we should benefit everyone, such as schools, roads, hospitals and others. Also in this category are grants to individuals (natural or otherwise), maintenance of the bureaucracy, paying salaries to leaders killed, etc.., Etc. etc. This idea would be very noble if we ask the taxpayers if we want to take away that money, or if we could control those costs, or if they take away money is not wasted. We all know that it is not. Conversely, if the Italian state was a company should sue for breach of contract, waste of money and so on, and should return our money. That, as you can imagine, it is not.
The regular reader of this blog may be wondering what is the string point of this anti-tax, which criticized the incompetence of the Italian state 1. The reason is very simple: Italian newspapers have been publishing articles and reports in which the contempt is palpable Italian politicians by intelligence of us, the taxpayers, regardless of the ideologies they represent.
Here I am referring is a minor inconvenience that had the Prime Minister Romano Prodi and the Catholic Church because it gave a statement to the weekly Catholic "Famiglia Cristiana" in early August in which he invited the church to put their two cents in the government's fight against tax evasion. How?, Using the Sunday homily to remind the faithful that it is a sin to evade taxes, or at least it's much more ethical pay 2. While in Italy, the response was swift from both the opposition and government supporters and the church. I will not go into details about what the opposition said, as the higher tax evaders are right (as Silvio Berlusconi, for example), but some members said Prodi branded crazy and said it best not to put the church in that package. Instead, I will translate the overwhelming response given by the Father Giorgio Murano within the pages of the magazine named as:
"Dear Prodi, do we have to pay to keep alive all these situations parasitic?. And to promote removing property theft should serve the public interest?. The church must remind citizens of the moral duty to pay taxes. But it should also remind managers the duty of administering the tax authorities based on the welfare of the people.
The Church in a party knows that taxes must be paid, the other has many doubts about the way they are managed. The "mass media" (sic) we are always talking about the privileges of politicians, policy costs, many of whom are not even made public. From cathedrals in the desert that have cost millions, unused, of the bribes to be paid to the party or parties terrible crime that increases the initial cost estimates. Of useless entities that continue to live and creating new entities, patronage hiring, scandalous protection incompetent vague, enormous military expenditures. "( La Repubblica, 9/8/2007, p. 7. )
I think it's really useless to say more, because this priest briefly summarizes the discontent of those who live in this country to the state, regardless of political affiliation. Although the question arises: what is less civic evade taxes or waste them?
1 could use similar arguments to criticize the Venezuelan state but I do not pay taxes in my country, the payment here.
2 The current government promotes the doctrine that the citizenship of a nation is measured in the number of people who pay their taxes, more people pay, the Civic is.
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