In 1924, the British embassy transmitted two copies of the publications issued by the Ministry of Finance called “Fascist Financial Policy” which stated: “the number of income tax payers has increased from 600,000 to 700,000. Th e entry on the roll of contributors of labourers hereto exempt from taxation . . . has increased the number by another 100,000 to which must be added a further 1,250,000 through the application of this tax to incomes derived from farming” (Ettore Rosboch, Rome 1924, FO 371/9936, fol. 35 [p. 11]).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1708