nearly one out of ten customers prefer this payment, they feel more confident of not being caught by the IRS
How would someone get cought by the IRS using cash? Do people really pay prositutes with creditcards ??
What's the IRS doing in Italy? What are food stamps doing in Italy? Maybe it's a translation thing.
I guess Google's algorithms are slightly overzealous in translating Italian terms to English equivalents.
Anyway, in many countries (including Italy) credit card records are not private and are shared with taxing authorities in order to detect lifestyles expenses that don't match declared income. So there's an extra privacy concern wrt. using credit cards for sexual purchases: not only will they be stored on the credit card's history, but someone in the local tax office is guaranteed to also know about your escapades.
Yeah well, Italy is second in Europe for tax evasion. Only Greece evade more.
So all these records are pretty useless.