Pavia. "A family registered since 1989. And there are those who want to defraud the tax authorities."«

PAVIA "It's nothing new that people of the same sex can be part of the same family status; a 1989 regulation provides for it," explains Civic Services Director Luigi Tomaselli after Arcigay's campaign on registered families, led by Vincenzo Ceraolo and Diego Geroldi in recent days. "A registered family is a group of people linked by marriage, kinship, affinity, adoption, guardianship, or emotional ties," he continues, "who live together." "Even five different people can be in the same family status," specifies the mayor, who criticizes "the exploitation of the family status by Arcigay, with whom the City is collaborating." It is true that this is the first recorded case of a gay couple living together with emotional ties in Pavia. "The reverse phenomenon is more widespread," says Tomaselli. "People are removing themselves from their parents' and grandparents' family status to obtain tax relief: they face heavy fines." Furthermore, the kinship bond is the only one that cannot be severed." (a.gh.)