A daft idea for the Italian Goverment
How about setting up a system which allows people to make advance IVA (VAT) and tax payments and grant those who do this a reduced rate of tax and/or use the interest generated on such advance payments to cover the some of the lost income resulting from the reduced tax rates?
It’s a mad idea, I know, but it might encourage more Italian businesses to actually pay taxes. And it may help businesses plan cashflow a little better too, I think.
You would need online access to your current tax and IVA position in real time too, as this would help you understand how much you can put aside for future tax/IVA liability. However, with the wonders of technology, setting this up should be a doddle.
A nutty idea? You tell me.
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A Sneak Preview - Businessisin
This is a new site that I’m working on - Businessisin…Italy. The title is self explanatory, I feel.
Basically, I want to use this site to show off Italian businesses, not the well known ones, and business people, especially young Italians, as well as providing advice on how and where to do business in Italy, and to create some form of networking between businesses abroad and Italian businesses.
And to help others understand what is going on here, I’m going to be running a ‘Press Clippings’ section which will be very brief summaries of Italian business news stories from Italian sites and newspapers, the aim of which is to give non-Italian business people more of an insight into Italy, how it works, and the kind of opportunities it may present.
On the other hand Blog from Italy, where you are now, attempts in part, and in a small way, to show off the end product, whereas Businessisin will try to show off the businesses behind the products, in an attempt to generate more business, investment, profit, and, hopefully, employment.
The site is live, but I have not yet launched it, so to speak. And my ‘business writing style certainly needs more work. But I’d like a little feedback and if you have any suggestions, I’m all ears.
If you’d like to pop over there, then feel free. Very much work in progress, and my ideas are only just starting to take shape.
Once the hectic period I’m going through at the moment calms down a bit, I’ll be dedicating more time to the site.
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A Photographic Thought
Don’t you just love that ‘bokeh’ blurry background effect that photographers get? I do, not all the time, but used appropriately, it can create really memorable images.
How do photographers create this blurred background thing? Quite simple really - it’s all down to having a very shallow depth of field, which is probably easier to understand if you call it ‘depth of focus’. For example, not using real figures: with a certain lens at a certain focal length - that’s the millimetres thing, you know, 28mm, and with a big hole, better known as an ‘aperture’ or ‘f-stop’, say f2.8, only the thing you focus on is in focus, plus a very shallow area behind the thing you focus on. Say, 1.5 metres. This means that anything beyond 1.5 metres, is not in focus. Hey presto! Bokeh!
The trouble is that this depth of focus changes in relation to the length of a lens and the size of the aperture. Smaller apertures, that’s with bigger f numbers (f10, f18, f32 etc) have much deeper focus areas.
This depth of field or focus thing, as you prefer, can be calculated - just search Google for ‘DOF calculators’, and there are even charts to help you. But we live in the digital age now, so why can’t the manufacturers build a DOF display into their cameras? Much better than that silly ‘direct print’ button thing on Canon dSLRs, or so I think.
Just a photographic thought for the day, inspired by this photo, and, if you click, you will see a comment of mine on this very subject.
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