Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement
by kalleboo on Sunday April 22, 2012 @09:09AM
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In Greece they crowdsource the tax enforcement by requiring everyone to submit a stack (to a certain amount of euros) of purchase receipts with their tax filing. This is to ensure that customers always ask for receipts, so that stores always enter everything into the register (which goes into the store's tax filing).
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> This is to ensure that customers always ask for receipts, so that stores always enter everything into the register (which goes into the store's tax filing).
It's fairly easy for a store to use a register that has nothing to do with the store's tax filing.
Receipt matching would defeat that, but only if stores submitted their receipts.
However, you can use customer receipts to estimate a store's revenue, but that has nothing to do with whether or not a register is involved.
Re:China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement
by guard-of-terra on Sunday April 22, 2012 @11:59AM
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It's a stupid measure since they never reward the desired behavior.
Also: are you always required to fill your taxes? That's stupid. Why would you do that if you have a normal job with a wage - they already have all the necessary information, why make you do extra work?