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i've seen a lot of buzz around such tools in the italian Linkedin space, it was either praised as the ultimate tool to automate jobs or feared it would leave un

i've seen a lot of buzz around such tools in the italian Linkedin space, it was either praised as the ultimate tool to automate jobs or feared it would leave unemployed a lot of office workers. i understand both sides and can confidently say that this ban was made for the latter concern; the italian job space revolves so much around bullshit employment practices (unpaid internships, long term employment for useless tasks), that an action like that is somewhat understandable, as these tools would render their job either just a useless chore or result in firing. and as the market is heavily controlled and protectionist of its workers, even if it means employing people for useless jobs (as long as they are paid almost pennies, and their salary doesn't grow) ai tools are seen as some foreign entity that need banning, as it challenges this vicious cycle of keeping everything down. note that workers are to blame too, there's almost close to none innovation in anything besides IT, because you either innovate and then force everyone else to be competitive in the field, or keep everything as it is and just ban competition in subtle and disgusting ways. for reference, my family taxes are handled by a tax consultant, i do my taxes through an online service, which is way cheaper than having a dedicated consultant. since my mother couldn't keep her mouth shut, somehow this information got leaked to the family tax consultant, resulting in a police search of my office, and a mandatory visit to a police station almost an hour away. this kind of stuff happens regularly.

meghan_rain 4y ago
> since my mother couldn't keep her mouth shut, somehow this information got leaked to the family tax consultant, resulting in a police search of my office, and a mandatory visit to a police station almost an hour away. this kind of stuff happens regularly. Why ? is it illegal to do taxes online in italy?
- dotsynergy_it 4y ago
  it comes back to the "keeping others down" mentality, since our tax consultant heard i was getting his services cheaper elsewhere, he most likely tipped the authorities for something bogus either as scare tactics or to actually do harm to my business. i know it's him because he ranted about this service, said should be illegal to charge so little to handle taxes, and warned my mother that tax returns will be less or something because our situation isn't fully handled by him (completely false). we pay him around 800€ per year, plus a fixed per tax return form (around 150€), and opening my business with him would have been around 700€ yearly plus 300€ once to handle some documents (it's free if you do it yourself). i pay around 300€ every year for a service that so far was perfect, with online guides, a billing/management software, multiple tax consultants handling tickets and responses to any questions i might have. you can see the convenience from a mile away, and he would be forced to innovate in a fair market; however the easiest (and most italian) way of handling competition is to be vicious about it, bring others down and leverage authorities

meghan_rain 4y ago

> since my mother couldn't keep her mouth shut, somehow this information got leaked to the family tax consultant, resulting in a police search of my office, and a mandatory visit to a police station almost an hour away. this kind of stuff happens regularly. Why ? is it illegal to do taxes online in italy?

dotsynergy_it 4y ago
it comes back to the "keeping others down" mentality, since our tax consultant heard i was getting his services cheaper elsewhere, he most likely tipped the authorities for something bogus either as scare tactics or to actually do harm to my business. i know it's him because he ranted about this service, said should be illegal to charge so little to handle taxes, and warned my mother that tax returns will be less or something because our situation isn't fully handled by him (completely false). we pay him around 800€ per year, plus a fixed per tax return form (around 150€), and opening my business with him would have been around 700€ yearly plus 300€ once to handle some documents (it's free if you do it yourself). i pay around 300€ every year for a service that so far was perfect, with online guides, a billing/management software, multiple tax consultants handling tickets and responses to any questions i might have. you can see the convenience from a mile away, and he would be forced to innovate in a fair market; however the easiest (and most italian) way of handling competition is to be vicious about it, bring others down and leverage authorities