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conaero
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...and back again if I get my way (as well as I suppose)
Andyk
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THey are a special little car...and getting rare in good condition these days...
Wattie
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I believe the Italian Govt are going after those with flash cars as they found they are almost always tax dodgers......this was an easy way to spot them! Ahhh, you can't keep a good financial crisis down.
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That's right - they targeted people with fancy cars and investigated their tax returns. Strangely, sales of fancy cars went through the floor.
Still, €4k a year... ****!
but unfortunately this is the truth: they simply don't care about 'supporting' our nice Italian cars, they preferred to apply a tax which is making the state to loose a lot of money (as nobody is buying sport cars, and the ones who were owning them just sold them abroad) but, from the point of view of silly people, this tax goes 'against' rich people, so it's a vote-catcher.
Then there's the part related to investigation of the tax returns: when driving such a car you get stopped at each road control, they ask you why you are driving such an expensive car, which is your job and they put you on a 'target list' and they ask you to demonstrate that you have enough incomes to pay the car, pay the owning taxes and pay the maintenance of that car. If you're ok with the taxes declaration (as most of people is) you have nothing to scare, but the point is that it's your job to go to the court and demonstrate that you're ok, meaning that you have to pay a business-consultant to collect the documentation and go to the court in your representation.
In other words, it's an incredible situation that hopefully will improve one day, but at the moment is really a pain...
P.S. fortunately our good cars manufaturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati are selling very well worldwide, and don't really need the Italian market (a couple of years ago ferrari produced something like 5.000 cars, sales in Italy were 27 units
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Then there's the part related to investigation of the tax returns: when driving such a car you get stopped at each road control, they ask you why you are driving such an expensive car, which is your job and they put you on a 'target list' and they ask you to demonstrate that you have enough incomes to pay the car, pay the owning taxes and pay the maintenance of that car. If you're ok with the taxes declaration (as most of people is) you have nothing to scare, but the point is that it's your job to go to the court and demonstrate that you're ok, meaning that you have to pay a business-consultant to collect the documentation and go to the court in your representation.
In other words, it's an incredible situation that hopefully will improve one day, but at the moment is really a pain...
P.S. fortunately our good cars manufaturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati are selling very well worldwide, and don't really need the Italian market (a couple of years ago ferrari produced something like 5.000 cars, sales in Italy were 27 units
)
casadalloro
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Lots of exotica just down the coast from our place at forte dei marmi crusing on a weekend evening... But then again most are probably driven by Russians i hear... In the shops they ask if we are Russian not English because of our pasty northern irish skin colour...!!