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The parliamentary financial evaluation committee has already declared it as unconstitutional. For those that still manage to save some of their income – a luxu

The parliamentary financial evaluation committee has already declared it as unconstitutional. For those that still manage to save some of their income – a luxury for very few nowadays – the plans to tackle this were already though out. For example, a large purchase of a high end tv at the last day of the year, which then would be returned a couple days unopened. The ministry would be “happy” and your savings would not really have exchanged hands permanently. It mostly illustrates the inability of the government to be effective.

postingFourFast 7y ago
> It mostly illustrates the inability of the government to be effective. Be careful, the Financial Panopticon lobby is getting better at this at an exponential rate. Just look at how they reacted to cryptocurrencies. > a large purchase of a high end tv at the last day of the year, which then would be returned a couple days unopened. If the purchase is electronically receipted the return will be as well. All they have to do is change the wording from "purchases" to "net purchases". Or just issue a regulatory interpretation indicating that's what the legislators meant in the first place.
icebraining 7y ago
But was the goal to actually force people to spend money? Not just force it to be tracked electronically?