Tax breaks to incentivise the
opening of sex shops were preserved in an amendment to the
government's growth decree, in a U-turn after opposition
criticism.
Initially sex shops were excluded from the new incentives,
along with pawnbrokers and betting shops, but the centre-left
opposition Democratic Party (PD) accused the government of
"legislating on citizens' sexual preferences" and "returning to
the obscurantist State".
In the end the rapporteurs re-inserted sex shops into the
amendment, which regards the reopening of shops in towns with
fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.
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