Italy to seize $835m from Airbnb in tax evasion inquiry
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Prosecutors say the firm failed to collect a 21% tax from landlords on rental income.
        • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
          32·
          1 year ago

          I drove cross country last year and saw signs of bedbugs in 3 of the 4 stops I’d picked out ahead of time. One of them was straight up still treating the room and even using a home remedy (had diatomaceous earth scattered all around the room) and then told me to my face they didn’t know what I was talking about. From what I hear, it’s only getting worse.

          Airbnbs might not be any more professional about handling the situation, but at least they handle a smaller volume of people.

          • stella@lemm.ee
            51·
            1 year ago

            Weird. I drove cross country for months, staying at various motels and never had an issue with bedbugs.

            Are you outside of the US?

              • stella@lemm.ee
                41·
                1 year ago

                All I can say then is that your experiences are unique to me.

                I don’t know anyone who had issues as bad as you did.

                • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  I’ve seen some sketchy motels in my time, which is why I stopped staying in them. Hotels, especially major chains tend to be decent to great quality, and are usually cost competitive with AirBnB according to several news stories and lemmy threads over the last 10 months or so. And they have less weird requirements about you doing bed stripping / cleaning before you leave.

  • stella@lemm.ee
    26·
    1 year ago

    Good. Nations need to start taking back more than businesses save with tax evasion techniques.

      • sadreality@kbin.social
        106·
        1 year ago

        people crying over climate change going around in jets…

        Also, tourism can gut a city, prime examples would be prague and venice.

          • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
            7·
            1 year ago

            As well as teach tolerance for other cultures, different perspectives and the humanities in general.

            Cancelling tourism across the board will 100% end up with everyone going to war with each other within a single lifetime, by means of the power hungry/money hungry/attention hungry “othering” everything not within eyeshot.

            We’re essentially talking about de-democratizing cultures and returning power to the hands of the few who get to translate the outside world for us. Idk about you, but I’m not interested in living under INGSOC or a return to cardinals gate-keeping wisdom, and substituting their own, behind the proverbial Latin.

            We need to curb greenhouse gases, yes, but we need that by normalizing green tech, not dropping another quarantine curtain on everyone. We need MORE tourism, like it or not. Maybe a state sanctioned, and funded, 2 years before uni for teens to have their own modern ‘walkabouts’ and get some exposure. We need everyone to gain some culture, after all, the more traveled we are, the less dogmatic and less inclined towards violence we tend to become. Which makes governing a population have to focus more on coercion and policy/dialectics and perhaps there’s the rub. It’s easier to start programming the young (kindergarten) with nationalism than sway opinions with rationality. Maybe that’s where the burnt of modern problems stem from.

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      no wonder the nickname if you remain stuck in your grey city without not even a day of fresh air

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    It’s not quite china consequences, but it’s a good first step. Once those roll out, corporations will spend the money on making sure their taxes are done properly, not the other way around, because a golden parachute isn’t going to do anything against a lead projectile.