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Again no receipt, this time because the person selling it was avoiding tax... You should always insist on getting a receipt, so the shop owner has to pay t

• HerraBRE 16y ago
  Theoretically, sure. In practice, things in that part of the world are very, very poorly regulated and people are just trying to get by as well as they can. If I was going to fight every single social problem I saw on that trip, I wouldn't have gotten very far.
• VladRussian 16y ago
  >Withholding taxes hurts the country's economy and only plays in the hands of corrupt regimes. And paying taxes into the pockets of corrupt regimes?
  • eru 16y ago
    Interestingly, regimes who can rely on revenue other than taxes (say, oil) are often even more corrupt.
    • VladRussian 15y ago
      Yes, what you pointing out to is the situation when the beast can't be starved by decreasing of the tax revenue alone. Having abundant source of cheap money, like oil, the beast just grows monstrously bigger and fatter.