China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement

Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement by yaix on Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:20AM (#3874564)

>>China’s clever solution is to make every fapiao a lottery ticket.

That's not "China's clever solution" but quite common. They had that in Mexico already more than 10 years ago when I lived there (the cash register in stores whould print out these "lottery numbers" onto the receipt).

The fapiao in the picture is from Guangdong, elsewhere I have seen only 100 kuai with scratch off fields, not ten kuai.

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Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement by gurkendoktor on Sunday April 22, 2012 @11:58AM (#3875138)

Taiwan also has a variation of this, being an even closer source of inspiration than Mexico for China.

It's crazy - the cleaning staff at my dormitory was absolutely obsessive about fishing each one of them out of the trash, even though the chance of winning is terrible...a good indicator of how little some people's time is still worth, sadly.

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Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement by codemac on Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:42PM (#3876568)

The worth of someone's time is not determined from how much they are paid for that time.

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Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement by gurkendoktor on Monday April 23, 2012 @11:57AM (#3879406)

Hm, what other conclusion would you draw from this?

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Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement by codemac on Thursday April 26, 2012 @02:35AM (#3892758)

Simple: They think the possibility of earning more money for their time is less than the possibility of winning the lottery.

It's a matter of desperation, not a matter of low worth.

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