hrvclv
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You are very wrong. North Europeans are statistically more likely to cheat than, for example, Italians. They are shrewder in general I would say. It's obvious if you have experience with innternational sales.
See this comparison of Danes and Italians:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/62eb/759a0b5079486771fa960ca140de6de783c4.pdf
Danes are more likely than Italians to evade taxes, but at the same time also more like to condemn tax evasion in others. This is no surprise to me.
I may be wrong. But in what you wrote, the operative words seem to me to be "statistically" and "likely to". The temptation may be there, as it is in every human being. But the hard facts speak for themselves: they are tempted to cheat... but they don't.
I didn't go through the 52 pages of the paper you refer to, but it seems to measure temptation rather than actual cheating. It also compares Italian students (virtual taxpayers) against Danish workers (actual taxpayers), which largely discredts whatever conclusions it claims to arrive at.
@Salento: with a "trust rate" at 27% in my country, I wouldn't even think of pointing an accusing finger at "suckers", whether Italian or Danish.