The majority of Italians are against building and tax amnesties. This is what emerges from the weekly survey carried out by the Termometro Politico Research Institute between November 29 and December 1. With regard to building amnesties, 44.5% consider them an encouragement to illegality and the construction of houses in hydrogeological risk areas, while 48.9% consider them acceptable only if a lack of concession and tax violations are remedied, but not in the case of buildings in areas of hydrogeological danger. The percentage in favor does not reach 5%. Likewise, the majority of Italians are opposed to tax peace, which has been included by the center-right government in the financial maneuver: 39.9% consider it an incentive to evade and a disrespectful measure towards those who pay all taxes and fines, while for 14.5% it is fine to cut sanctions but the State should have demanded unpaid taxes. 26.7% believe that the removal and lightening of sanctions is right; a further 16.9% would have wanted the deletion of assessments of more than a thousand euros and the most recent ones. There is another key measure of the maneuver that does not please more than one interviewee in two, namely the possibility for merchants not to accept electronic payments up to 60 euros without incurring penalties. For 28.5%, this is a mistake: on the contrary, the cash should gradually be replaced by electronic money in order to minimize tax evasion; a further 31.3% disagree as it is the right of consumers to pay as they wish and not necessarily to walk around with cash. On the other hand, 22.8% believe that there should be no obligation to accept them as in most of Europe. Finally, 16.3% are in favor of the measure and denounce the excessive fees on the smallest figures.
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