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A comment on Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal. Parent comment

Re:Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal by joncrocks on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:55AM (#14515056)
I'd note that this is also applicable to most legal systems, in that there aren't a set well defined rules which describe legal behaviour.

Vague laws are written and then interpreted by judges and these go on to set precedent. Suddenly you find yourself in the situation that in order to make sure you're not breaking any laws, it's a full-time job.

If ignorance of the law is no excuse, and it's practically impossible to know all the law....

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Re:Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal by pdimitar on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:19AM (#14521529)
> If ignorance of the law is no excuse, and it's practically impossible to know all the law....

That's sadly very true and assumes guilt by default which is a very broken state of affairs. It's roughly the same as with mass surveillance -- if the government has enough data on you, they will find something to convict you of.

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