[Granucci]

Ferrari Crackdown: Italy Declaring War on Tax Cheats

Ferrari Crackdown: Italy Declaring War on Tax Cheats - Yahoo! News

Across Italy police are cracking down on Ferrari and Lamborghini drivers, but not because they are driving too fast. Italy, like so much of southern Europe, is drowning in debt, so police are pursuing drivers to make sure they are declaring – and therefore paying taxes on – earnings that would allow them to afford cars worth as much as half a million dollars.
The targeting is part of an ongoing war on tax cheats, an attempt to shore up $2.5 trillion of the country's public debt and change a culture that has often prided itself on avoiding taxes. Tax authorities have long carried out much-publicized checks on owners of luxury cars, yachts, even nightclubs that don't issue proper receipts. But since the unelected, technocratic government took power in November, it has made enforcing tax collections a priority.

Just found it interesting their version of the IRS incorporates the local Police, directly.

[tazandjan]

We are just lucky most Americans are relatively law-abiding about paying their taxes. No way could our IRS enforce the laws if there was a general attitude like there has been in Italy. Not enough enforcement types in our or, apparently, their IRS hence the local police being drafted to enforce.

[Best 430Scuderia]

They are clever, when they are squeezed they know from where to get money. and they can come back for 5 years.

every one has to find the way out to be more clever than them.