The Tremorti Tax Shield
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Tremorti has declared war on Switzerland with the Tax Shield. This is a war between Euro traffickers. They are fighting over the tax evaders’ money. It is estimated that some 600 billion Euro that originated in Italy and was not declared to the tax authorities is now sitting in the Swiss banks. 200 billion of this is in Lusanne alone, in the Ticino Canton. To all intents and purposes, Lusanne has essentially become the homeland of the Italian tax evaders. Tremorti’s mission is to dry up Switzerland in order to balance Italy’s books, so he sent the financial police into 76 branches of Swiss banks that operate in our Country. Since September, members of the Italian financial police dressed in civilian clothes have been checking the motorcars crossing the Italian-Swiss border and beyond. Indeed, there are Swiss citizens that are now on the hunt for any tax investigators sent out “in absolute secrecy” by the authorities in Rome.
The Italian ambassador in Bern was summoned by the Swiss authorities to provide an explanation and the Swiss Minister of Internal Affairs, Pascal Couchepin, has labelled the Italians’ behaviour as a "raid" on Swiss banks.
If all the tax evaders’ funds, estimated to constitute two thirds of the capitalisation of Lusanne, were to return to Italy, the Ticino Canton would risk going bankrupt. It is like a battle to win the public thief award, the most disgusting one of all. Indeed, it can’t be anything else, when you have a tax evader who doesn’t pay tax in his own Country and exports millions of Euro to Switzerland, where the money will be safe thanks to banking confidentiality. Money that has been denied to the community, to the weakest members of society, to the schools and to the hospitals. Hoodlums that have kept their money in the shadow of chocolate and that may now bring it back into this Country on a red carpet of anonymity, of pardon, and paying a levy of only 5%. It’s a case of thieves acting against other thieves. Who will eventually win this battle, Italy or Switzerland?
Whose bloody money is this anyway? Are there any politicians involved? Are they perhaps amongst those who voted in favour of the Tax Shield or abstained from voting?
Even the Swiss are getting pissed off in their own small way. A former bank manager has stated that if he were to speak out, "The Italian Government would collapse overnight".
So speak out my little Swiss chocolate, please do us all a favour and speak out!