Italy Kills Health Tax on the Dead
<i> Associated Press</i>
ROME —
Now there’s one sure way to escape Italian tax collectors: die.
The Italian Cabinet on Friday abolished a regulation that said the dead were still responsible for the $50 annual health care tax in the year of their death.
Health Minister Maria Pia Garavaglia, who issued the order creating the regulation July 30, conceded that there was no way to enforce the measure.
She said she hoped family members and heirs would pay the tax, which sought to bring in $19 million a year from the deceased.
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