Italians to denigrate their landlords

Italian capital Rome, many apartments rented black
In Italy, the tenant should continue to tell on their landlords if they rent black and thus evade taxes. Thus the government wants to rehabilitate the heavily indebted state - and makes the tenants an offer they can hardly refuse.

Hamburg - The Italian government desperately needs money. In the fight against the cash strapped urges the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, now preparing for yet almost untouched terrain: The Italian authorities want to pursue tax evaders and the sanctions - and set it according to a report in the Financial Times Germany "on the help of citizens.

After that, the government plans evade not only stiffer penalties for landlords, taxes. She wants to show the black rented flats and houses also for a period of four years with a government price dictation. So that could drastically reduce the rent: The new rent would in fact such zones in only one quarter of the current rent.

This reduction in rent to tenants with an incentive to report tax evaders-host for the financial police. For tenants know loud "FTD" in general, whether leases are registered in public or not. The government hopes to make sinful landlord honest taxpayers. According to the report, this could trigger a small Mietrevolution: In the Italian capital Rome to every other apartment be rented black, in other cities even more.

The new Mietsteuern according to newspaper report in future flow directly into the empty coffers of cities and towns. Cities such as Rome and Milan could count with revenues of up to € 400 million, citing the "FTD" a study. The Italian state annually lose billions of euros lost through tax evasion. Nevertheless, tax dodgers have been shown only rarely, the government refrained so far on the help of other citizens in the detection. Berlusconi tax evasion once even referred to as self-defense.