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The US liberators fixed that and made sure that Sicily was to become one of the special statute regions. They don't send any collected VAT to the central state
by stefantalpalaru 11y ago
The US liberators fixed that and made sure that Sicily was to become one of the special statute regions. They don't send any collected VAT to the central state to this day. And VAT in Italy is 22%.
- douche 11y agoAfter WW2, there was a period of time when it was seriously considered that Italy might come under communist control. Most famously, you have Operation Gladio[1]. If I recall correctly (and I may not, because this is probably colored by some History Channel conspiracy documentaries), there were contingency plans where Sicily would secede to allow NATO to retain a foothold in the Mediterranean, with the CIA relying on Cosa Nostra connections with the Sicillian mafia in order to effect this... Yep, I must have been watching that in between a special on the Mayan calendar, and one on how Stonehenge is a pre-historic alien spaceport... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
- coldtea 11y agoThere's no shortage of international scumbags that big foreign powers have made deals with and supported in their atrocities in order to get their diplomatic/geopolitical games going.