It may be new to Italy but it is the standard case in most of the developing countries. There are lot many reasons including money laundering, flight of capital ..etc Probably in this case it must be flight of capital, unless the money is invested from abroad repatriating the funds is not justified. It will just make the host country poorer.Italian interior minister Marco Minitti plans to bring the new law into parliament at next thursday.
The proposal says that money transactions into certain countries are put under a 75% tax.
So far the law falls on people from Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Libya.
This means migrants will not be able to transfer money from Italy to their families and vice versa, since 75% of any transaction lands in the italian state treassury.
The law also affects the work of NGO, which will have to pay 25% tax on any investment they get.
Excemption can be give from the authorities if the person proves that he makes a business related transaction.
What is surprising is that Italy enacting such laws.