Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:09AM
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What country do you live in where the tax men have guns!? Ours just send lots of strongly-worded letters.
Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
by TomMarius on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:23AM
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Basically all of (central, where I live) Europe, not sure about the USA. The police comes if you don't pay - it's a criminal offence. Nobody would pay if they only sent letters. Also European ministries of finances often have their own armed forces (customs administration[1]).
[1] For example the Czech Customs Administration: https://www.celnisprava.cz/en/Pages/default.aspx - note the sentence at the top: "Customs Administration of the Czech Republic is a security force ensuring processes in the field of customs administration and related taxes, as well as other non-fiscal activities in the favor of the state and its citizens. It is subordinated to the Ministry of Finance."
Why is everything people want has to be government funded? Just go ask people for money directly, like a lot of the abovementioned youtube stars do. Tax man with the gun does not have to be involved with this.