ITALIAN TAXES

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3269, 7 March 1931, Page 8

ITALIAN TAXES

No.country makes its citizens go to \ 'so much trouble to pay their taxes as : { Italy. While most of the individual taxes: are small, the global amount : is very large, and the burden of pay- : ingthem is far greater than if the ,* levy was exacted in a few stiff impositions: - ,It would be impossible to compile a full list of the taxes levied in Italy either by the State or by the communes (says the Rome correspondent t: of ihe Christian Science Monitor). V Some time ago a Genoese newspaper '; ; in advocating a reform of taxation in "Italy mentioned some of the taxes ■which a, bachelor business man had, to pay. ' ■>■.: These taxes—-though the following '/■, is not necessarily a cdmplete list—include national land tax, provincial land tax, communal land tax, gross income; fax with supplementary taxes ■on 'portions oi income derived from . business, bachelor : tax, supers-tax on both income and wealth, communal |- tax on his business, communal tax on pfofessioiij corporation tax for Fascist corporations, social insurance tax, .highway maintenance tax (one for •; : -home and one for business), highway occupation tax, sign tax, tax for pro- . >. yincial council's economy, tax on rent paid, license for conduct of any kind of business, trade, or profession, tax for each vehicle owned, tax for each animal; owned, aqueduct tax, tax on pianos, and tax on servants.