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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Evolution of Taxes: Italy Taxes "Shadows", Tax on Breathing Next?
Zero Hedge had an interesting article today called In Italy, They're Now
Taxing Shadows.
This is one of those stories where you expect the headline to be a bit of an
exaggeration. It wasn't.
As Italian newspaper Leggo reports, store owners in Conegliano are now
faced with the unfortunate (albeit comically absurd) proposition of paying
taxes on shadows.
The rationale appears to go something like this: an awning casts a
shadow on public property and therefore you must pay to use that property.
Tax on Breathing Next?
I pinged that article off Pater Tenebrarum at Acting Man. He lives in
Austria. Pater responded ...
They actually got that idea from Austria, where we have the so-called (
put down the coffee) "air tax". No, it's not a tax on breathing just yet.
But if you have a shop sign that "occupies airspace", you must pay a tax for
it!
In Vienna this is garnished additionally with the "subway levy", which
has to be paid regardless of whether one uses the subway or not. In fact, I
think there is no government on the planet more inventive with regard to
taxes, levies and imposts of all sorts. | j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 2 是应该征收呼吸税，如果在public land吸入空气
如果打个屁，要收双倍 | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 3 某只猫欠本版100伪币
【在 j*****v 的大作中提到】
: 是应该征收呼吸税，如果在public land吸入空气
: 如果打个屁，要收双倍
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