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- WORLD, Page 43World NotesITALYTax Cheats' Hall of Shame
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- Italians are notorious for not paying their taxes, but with
- the government staggering under annual deficits of more than $100
- billion, Rome can no longer afford to wink at deadbeats. To
- embarrass delinquents, Finance Minister Rino Formica launched
- Operation Glass House, giving computerized lists of the past
- decade's 270,000 tax evaders to the press. The lists include
- such figures as leather-goods entrepreneur Roberto Gucci and
- Benito Mussolini's son Romano.
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- The nation's No. 1 tax cheat is Domenico Cannarozzo, 42,
- who told Rome that his income between 1983 and 1985, when he
- was unemployed, was only about $9,000. In fact, Canna rozzo
- failed to report roughly $21 million during those years. His
- overdue tax bill: more than $13 million. So far, the government
- has had difficulty locating Cannarozzo. But that should be no
- surprise to Italian tax authorities: for every delinquent tax
- bill they manage to identify, they succeed in recovering just
- 24% of the money.
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