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Oh dear time for a rant!

How they just hate giving one receipts My accountant quite correctly insists that when shopping I ask for a tax/vat/iva receipt that is at least for business expenses Now you would think that here I italy that would be the simplest thing ever. After all by law all stores have to give one a receipt. […]

Posted byAlecApril 30, 2012Posted inRantsTags: bureaucracy, Fattura, italy, receiptLeave a comment on Oh dear time for a rant!

Catch 22

Bureaucracy here in this country sure is bewildering.  Yesterday I wasted virtually the whole day running from one office to another. It seems the regulations require me to have physically been in possession of something, but at the same time preclude me from having it.  I am being thrown from pillar to post.  I have […]

Posted byAlecOctober 29, 2009May 12, 2020Posted inDevelopment progressTags: bureaucracy, catch 22Leave a comment on Catch 22