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Re:Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks o... by yunohn on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:49AM (#31014631)
> The 'bulgaren-fraude' was the cause for the government to change policy (and I believe law) to be much stricter on fraud and be much more vigilant when trying to detect fraud.

Whatever the stated reason was, they failed horribly at execution - by unfairly stereotyping and discriminating against innocent people.

There lots of other ways to combat tax fraud.

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Re:Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks o... by rocqua on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:51AM (#31014640)
Fully agreed.

But the stated reason is still relevant, if only to check what the history and reasoning of the original plan was. Here it informs us how the tax office came to see citizens as adversaries, when that was not (or less so) their stance before 2016.

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Re:Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks o... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:03PM (#31018010)
https://www.vpro.nl/argos/lees/onderwerpen/artikelen/2021/bu...
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