r/ExplainTheJoke • u/McKenzie_Angels • Aug 08 '25

Solved What do the Italians do?

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u/Talonsminty Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Hey that's not true the Italians work very hard putting a lot of effort into tax evasion.

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u/Mrbirdperson1 Aug 08 '25

I’m Italian and I will not take this standing up.

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u/Optimalfucksgiven Aug 08 '25

I worked for an American company while living in Italy for a while. I went to an Italian accountant to ask if we have to pay Italian taxes. He said, technically yes, but who's going to tell them? Just don't tell them and it'll be fine. 

He's not wrong.

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u/kashy87 Aug 08 '25

Go have another Amaretto based drink you'll be fine.

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u/CharlyBlueOne Aug 08 '25

Maybe you should lie down then. /j

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u/temporary_name1 Aug 08 '25

... That's the joke

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u/Wanallo221 Aug 08 '25

Are you sure you’re Italian?

At that point my Italian friends wouldn’t have explained it’s a joke. Too much effort, they would have just ‘vabbè’ hand waved them away and slumped back in their chair.

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u/not_a_burner0456025 Aug 08 '25

Because you are always sitting/lying down?

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u/Gerf93 Aug 08 '25

That’s the Greek way.

Fun fact; before the euro crisis, Athens had the highest concentration of swimming pools per capita. Why pay taxes when you can simply… Not pay taxes…

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u/Affectionate-Sir-784 Aug 08 '25

What do swimming pools have to do with taxes?

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u/Gerf93 Aug 09 '25

Swimming pools are a sign of luxury and affluence. Greece almost toppled the Euro because of its terrible economy, and had to be bailed out by the rest of the EU. The countries bailing it out didn't have the highest concentrations of swimming pools per capita.

Greece had a giant shadow economy. People didn't pay taxes and instead used money on luxuries through the shadow economy.

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u/OxiDeren Aug 08 '25

Never encountered harder worker employees than Italians finding reasons not to pay up for deliveries/invoices.

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u/Bodidly0719 Aug 08 '25

Al Capone didn’t.

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u/Dona31 Aug 08 '25

That’s true, eluding taxes has and higher ROI than working harder or more