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From: Accountancy SA
Date: 20070701
Author:Webb, Penelope

Readers will not need to be reminded of the well known advice given in the 4th century AD to Saint Augustine: 'When in Rome, live as the Romans do.' For many, your correspondent included, the aphorism conjures happy memories of watching the sun go down over the Eternal City on a warm summer's evening, accompanied by a glass or more of Danzante Chianti.

But this column has a purpose more serious than wine and on this occasion we explore some of the idiosyncrasies of tax systems across the world. A few years ago, a woman leaving a shop in Rome was confronted by two Revenue Inspectors from the ...

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