Amid debt crisis, Italians tackle tax evasion

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In this nation where tax evasion can be considered part of a solid business plan, even dentists and hairdressers demand payment in cash - payments that then frequently vanish from accounting books like so many Cheshire cats. But as the world’s eighth-largest economy struggles to pull back from the brink of a debt crisis that has much of the financial world on edge, Italy may be on the verge of a national reckoning over one its most vexing financial and cultural problems: tax cheats.

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