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The podcast "The Rest Is Politics" did an interesting interview with the Prime Minister of Albania recently, where he made the argument that the best way to dea
by MrJohz 4y ago
The podcast "The Rest Is Politics" did an interesting interview with the Prime Minister of Albania recently, where he made the argument that the best way to deal with corruption is to get rid of the paperwork altogether, and basically make government services so easy to access that corruption and bribery wasn't necessary in the first place. So he'd been putting a lot of work into digitising as much as possible, making corruption effectively much more difficult, but also much less necessary in the first place.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThis sort of thinking also prevents some kinds of scams. For instance there are web sites that masquerade as British government sites for paying road tax/vehicle tax and charge fees that the official site does not. Similar sites scam people out of money for making ESTA visa applications to visit the US In Norway this road fund fee is collected automatically by the insurance company. This is obviously easier for the user (zero paperwork), less work for the state, and prevents scam artists from duping people. And back on the subject of registering a company: in Norway this is done online and takes minutes.