Court acquits man who failed to pay 180,000 euros in taxes

(ANSA) – Milan, October 24 – A court in Milan on Thursday acquitted an entrepreneur charged with evading VAT taxes of 180,000 euros. A preliminary hearings judge said the man, who owns a computer company, had not committed a crime as he had failed to pay the taxes because he did not have the money and not because he wanted to evade.

His company was in financial difficulty due to Italy’s recession.