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> payer has no corrupt intent. It’s just the scale. A “facilitation payment” is a small bribe. The payer of any bribe is participating in a corrupt system. Pa
by prepend 6y ago
> payer has no corrupt intent.
It’s just the scale. A “facilitation payment” is a small bribe.
The payer of any bribe is participating in a corrupt system. Paying $1 to get your passport stamped is small, but it still is bad. Think of all the poor people who don’t have $1 and get hosed by this.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoNo, it's really not the scale - it's about intent. $100 to a customs officer to avoid being held up for a day when you've done nothing wrong is totally different from $100 to a customs officer to overlook unpaid duties on a suitcase full of goods.
- prepend 6y agoGood point, intent is important. But both of your examples are bribes.
- dageshi 6y agoIt's a form of direct taxation. In most of these countries officials literally officially get paid $50 a month as their salary. But their position allows them to directly "tax" people in the ways being described here. Their boss and their bosses boss will probably be in on it and be receiving a cut.
- rob74 6y agoOk, if it's already calculated into the officials' salaries (the same way as waiters get paid less, because they get tips from customers), then they should at least give you a receipt for this "tax payment"...
- dageshi 6y agoGenuine question, because I'm not from the USA, do people get receipts for their tips?