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Efficiency is not a known concept here in Italy. There are people/companies who get fined for paying taxes, and other people/companies who don't get fined for not paying them. There is no presumption of innocence when dealing with italian tax authority. And things are super slow.

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Yeah the state of the country is just sad. And obviously like in every disfunctional company there are the usual gaslighting liars who insist it's just normal and it's like this everywhere.

Pet theory: it's because not enough Italians speak English and Italy is the only place where Italian is a majority language. You end up with a culturally backwards country.

Is your pet theory limited to only Italian speakers, or is it the same for any language. Irrespective, as theories go - well, it sure is a theory.

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