Reply to post: Re: In Italy, you should not take photos of railroads and stations...

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

Andy A

Re: In Italy, you should not take photos of railroads and stations...

IIRC, income tax did get repealed after the defeat of Napoleon.

A couple of decades later, someone else saw it as "a pretty neat idea" and it has been with us ever since.

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