I did my master thesis working with that in 2006. It was fun but challenging to work with a so primitive OS (no memory dynamic allocation, etc.) and so many bugs.

In Italy, in the past people starts paying tickets that they think unfair completely in coins. The government had to introduce a maximum amount that you can pay in coins to protect the employees that otherwise will spend day on counting cents.

As Italian, I really disagree. The only entities that pay all the taxes are employees because the taxes are collected directly from the salaries.

Big companies have the opportunity to make tax elusion (there is a reason why many Italian companies have legal HQ in Netherlands or Luxembourg), small companies, artisans and freelancers usually avoid to pajly VAT

> while a part is decided by the political side

Now, roughly one third of CSM members is nominated by the Parliament and the other one is elected by judges, according to the "correnti" (a sort of parties)

> The government is pushing for a constitutional amendment to help "fix" this feature. There is going to be a referendum on the change very soon.

Italian here. It's not like that: the referendum is about definitely enforcing the career separation about public persecutor and judges. Actually they are under the same authority and the member of this authority are elected according to a sort of political parties (unique case in the whole EU) and this creates some distortions in career growths and nominations. The new schema will create two different authorities and the members will be selected according to a ballot.

A similar proposal was made by the left wing parties few years ago, when they were at the government

In Italy, if you are charged of tax evasion, you need to demonstrate that you are not evading. It's called "inversion proof"

that seems terrible

it's for the civil part. (so you need to show the tax office some paper trail that you based your filings on. invoices, bills, contracts, emails, receipts. and if they are formally okay, then the tax agency has to show that they are just fake papers.)

as far as I understand the criminal part still considers intent and so on (and has a higher standard for burden of proof), but if you file for VAT return and then you have zero invoices (and so the numbers simply don't add up) the court can easily find that there was intent to defraud the state. (and then sentencing is based on the amount of damages.)

Doesn't seem to be universal but applied narrowly for example for financial crimes.

I do, IU5RQT from Italy

Please use an appropriate filter for the band that you are transmitting, otherwise you will pollute all the near frequencies with spurious.

Nothing against EV, but a full electric Ferrari is almost a profanity IMHO.