France would be on par with the JP, and I actually kinda like the Italian trade-off of high info density upfront and more spacing and pictures coming way below the fold.
I think I like the German design the best, by a pretty wide margin. The french design is terrible. Busy and hard to parse. The Italian is 2nd best to the German but has some advantages over the German design: Chiefly, links are clearly differentiated from text. Somehow though, the German design still manages to mostly differentiate the links from text by context with a couple of exceptions. The big advantage the German design has going for it, is that it's so clean and easy to parse. I can get into the correct pipeline in about 2 seconds. That's just not quite true for either of the others.
Funny that the Italian site is having trouble loading. The Italians are masters of design and attention to detail, yet are infamous for unreliable machinery. The tax website embodies the Italian essence right into the digital age.
Tax agencies are a pretty good barometer of what is considered to be the minimal effort, for comparison
- France: https://www.impots.gouv.fr/
- Germany: https://www.bzst.de/
- Italy: https://www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/
France would be on par with the JP, and I actually kinda like the Italian trade-off of high info density upfront and more spacing and pictures coming way below the fold.