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To: babble-on

I’d call it income evasion.

I was watching some German news piece along about 1998. German border folks had stopped this German couple in an RV driving over the bridge into Luxembourg. Went through the whole RV....they had a coffee can with 40,000 D-Marks (around $20k). Guy was a plumber and had weekend work where cash was paid. This was his half-year take. Apparently, the couple had an account there and hid the income.

From the trade and craftsmen, I’ll bet more than half of them have safes in their basement and easily have 100,000 Euro stashed away that never gets reported to the government for taxation purposes.


8 posted on 05/15/2019 6:09:26 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

When I lived there (and worked at a German bank) I asked naively, “Why doesn’t the government do something about it?”

Once the laughter died down and I was still bewildered someone finally had mercy on the innocent American and explained with a question, “Who do you think has the MOST money going offshore out of anyone?”

AHHHHH!


12 posted on 05/15/2019 6:25:06 AM PDT by babble-on
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