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the marginal value of small transactions is negligible.

If you want to evade taxes by skimming 5 cents on each coffee, you have to sell 200.000 unregistered coffees to save 1.000 euros.

Which is more than 3 times what an average Italian bar sells every year.



Like for other measures, especially in the past few years, measures are taken and justified though a broad vague irrational paternalistic shout ("For the children"), and we are left with the unduly burden of trying to reconstruct the logic (if any plausible exists).




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