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> How is that related to the BBC? I think iso1631 is saying that there may be enough red tape for imports into India that the BBC could technically be breaking
by blincoln 4y ago
> How is that related to the BBC?
I think iso1631 is saying that there may be enough red tape for imports into India that the BBC could technically be breaking the law for failing to declare/pay duties on some equipment they or their employees brought into the country.
If you're in the US, my experience is that it's kind of an anomaly in terms of relatively light enforcement of import taxes for individual citizens. For example, most countries will look at the declared value on foreign parcels and force the recipient to pay import tax before releasing it to them.[1] If someone walked the same thing over the border, and the government wanted to make things hard on that person, they might accuse them of tax evasion, etc.
[1] For those NOT in the US wondering how this is unusual, individuals generally don't have to pay before receiving the parcel here.
- KingOfCoders 4y agoYes, but how is the BBC responsible for their employees buying phones and bringing them in the country? Was the BBC telling their employees to do this? It wasn't the employees home raided but the BBC office.
- iso1631 4y agoThe BBC provides journalists with phones to do their job, be that a live broadcast using something like LU-Smart, or just getting their emails on the road.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoAny object within their physical premises would be ultimately their liability if no one else steps forward to claim ownership. Or at least that's how the law works in a lot of countries.
- KingOfCoders 4y agoI don't know about a lot of countries, it doesn't work this way in Germany for sure.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoSo then who is liable if some dangerous substance is discovered within a company's office in Germany? Or if someone gets hurt by a normal object placed in a peculiar position? Assuming the perpetrator is unknown.
- KingOfCoders 4y agoThere is an investigation (for that we have the police) on how it got there and who is responsible and if something illegal (determined first by the prosecution office and then determined by a court) was going on.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoAnd if the perpetrator cannot be found? Who pays out for the damages ultimately?
- KingOfCoders 4y agoIn Germany the guilt has to be proven by the prosecution and you need to be sentenced by the court. If this can't be done, no one is hold accountable. If something stolen is found in an office, and the company has nothing to do with it, the company is not held responsible for the theft.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoWhat if something actually dangerous, like sticks of dynamite, is discovered in some office?
- KingOfCoders 4y agoProbably the building is evacuated and the dangerous thing secured by specialists E.g. a bomb squad. Then the same thing. The police and the prosecution find out if this was illegal, if the possession is illegal, who possesed if and who brought it and why, then who is responsible and a court decides if someone is guilty. The court will decide if the company is responsible E.g. because of negligence, they might not have implemented the law, educated their employees etc. In the case of dynamite that an employee brought, the company is not responsible, there might be terrorism charges against the employee.
- iso1631 4y ago> Yes, but how is the BBC responsible for their employees buying phones and bringing them in the country? Was the BBC telling their employees to do this? Well yes
- KingOfCoders 4y agoThe BBC told their employees to buy phones outside India and told their employees to not pay taxes?