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> "They actually hired people to sit around watching the coffee get made, so they caught the fraud." There's (was at least, not sure if it's still going) an un
by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "They actually hired people to sit around watching the coffee get made, so they caught the fraud."
There's (was at least, not sure if it's still going) an undercover unit in HMRC (the UK IRS) who's job it was to go to pubs and make sure they aren't under reporting sales by counting how many pints they sold. Of course to blend in they had to spend the whole day on the piss.
A popular team.
- londons_explore 6y agoI'm going to guess this is one of those mostly-mythical enforcement tactics. You do it once to one pub, and then talk about it loudly in pub industry magazines because you don't have the resources to sit in every pub every day just to check a few pints of beer tax don't go unpaid.
- akiselev 6y agoIt's not, at least not in the US. The '97 Congressional investigation on IRS abuse dug up a few cases where IRSA agents used this method as an excuse to get piss faced at bars or free vacations at casinos.