The New Mussolini-ism

In Italy it's everything for the spesometro, nothing outside the spesometro...

Jewellery, cars, luxury items and furniture purchases are about to come under scrutiny. Over the next few days, the tax authorities will find out whether you bought any luxury items last year. If your declared income is incompatible with the purchase, they will want to know why. Today marks the first of the deadlines for the spesometro, the mechanism used by tax offices to profile taxpayers’ actual income from purchases of €3,600 or more made during 2013.

The country that put Sophia Loren in jail is the birthplace of fascism.