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24th February 2008, 01:22 PM
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| Stake Holder  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Oxfordshire
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| Crime Pays? Tax authorities pay for Britons' bank details - Times Online Your Tax pounds at work buying stolen property |
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24th February 2008, 03:11 PM
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| Bearly Believable  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK: ENGLAND:
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| Re: Crime Pays? Tax evasion, as opposed to tax avoidance, is a crime (one with huge rewards; and many victims: honest taxpayers). Police informants are often paid, one way or the other. Informants are not always the nice upstanding people we'd like them to be. If this were a perfect world, we would be right to be shocked; it isn't and we aren't. |
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24th February 2008, 03:36 PM
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| Scottish Roman  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Perth and Kinross
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| Re: Crime Pays? It's would sicken a pig. Everybody grumbles about tax, but most of us pay it, trying to convince ourselves that the system is fair and everyone pays what's due. A slimeball betraying other slimeballs is, I suppose, natural justice but he shouldn't be rewarded for reporting a simple theft. |
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