" Taxman tells all"

During the past days, italian citizens were able to see how much their friends and everyone else declared as taxable income. Tax office published the tax records of some 38 million italians for the 2005 fiscal year on its own official website.
Obviously, the site crashed down few hours later. Many people whined about "violation of privacy rules", but even after the suspension of the site, this information were circulating on the net via peer-to-peer. After this unusual occurence there were a lot of legal proceedings against the tax office. Consumer assiciation Codacons asker a compensation of 52€ for each italian whose tax declaration was made public.
the centre-left government said that this was sust a way to fight tax evasion, so common in our country. That was sust for "trasparency". How ever, politicians from centre-right accused Prodi of making a last vengeful move before leaving office.
Probably that was really a privacy violation, but in the end who had a right behaviour has nothing to fear of.........

Fabio Bartolozzi Mirko Risaliti