Death penalty for tax avoidance?

[V8mate]

China exercises the death penalty each year, more times than every other country in the world added together.

Offences carrying the death penalty include tax fraud and embezzlement.

Traditionally, the sentence has been delivered by a bullet to the back of the head.

But now, the authorities have got a fleet of mini-buses and are driving round the country delivering the sentences by lethal injection. The buses also have operating tables and, post-injection, the bodies are then stripped of useful organs.

Which got me thinking.......

If someone is killed by a lethal injection, would you want one of their organs? Wouldn't it introduce some of the 'death juice' into your own body?

Carry on.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7169...

[cymtriks]

In a totalitarian state its fairly easy to rake through absolutely every transaction and "find" one that is "suspicious". This is a "warning" to stop any activity that the state disapproves of.

In prisons it was reported (i.e. may or may not be true!) that there were quotas for organs. These could be met by assessing every prisoner on their work and ability to understand communist theory. If no obvious candidate showed up then the prisoners worked harder and learnt more until someone failed.

[Marf]

Behead those who insult Inland Revenue?

[Hudson]

Marf said:

Behead those who insult Inland Revenue?

[Eric Mc]

Hudson said:

Marf said:

Behead those who insult Inland Revenue?

Especially if they call it by the wrong name.
That's "blasphemy".

[XJSJohn]

V8mate said:

China exercises the death penalty each year, more times than every other country in the world added together.

More people per capita are convicted and executed in Singapore than anywhere else in the world.

Fortunately being creative with ones accountancy is not cause for being but on the end of a rope.

[Jasandjules]

TBH I believe (in a slightly tinfoil hat kind of way) that in China when someone important needs a new liver/kidney that by co-incidence a donor is executed and hey presto, problem solved.

[nonegreen]

All communism is evil. The Chinese also perform enforced abortions. Nevertheless I would rather live in China than be under the green jackboot.

[Marf]

Eric Mc said:

Hudson said:

Marf said:

Behead those who insult Inland Revenue?

Especially if they call it by the wrong name.
That's "blasphemy".

OK OK "Behead those who insult HM Revenue and Customs!"

Please don't cut off my hands, the Hamsa hooks wouldn't be a good look for me.

[Eric Mc]

Drawing cartoon images of Darling would be dodgy behaviour too.

[Marf]

I don't suppose calling him badger features would go down too well either.

[SJobson]

Does this apply to inheritance tax avoidance too

[Eric Mc]

I can hear the word "fatwah" rising from the corridors of Whitehall even as we speak.

[Muntu]

I thought tax avoidance was perfectly legal, and tax evasion is the problematic one?

[BOR]

Outsourcing. China. Outsourcing. Banking. China. Fred Goodwin. AIG Bonus Eaters. Outsourcing. Lloyds. China. BarCap SCM. Outsourcing payroll. Outsourcing Bonus payments. China. Greed. Theft. Outsourcing. Bullet-to-the-back-of-the-head. Banker. Tax-payer bailouts. Bonus Payments. Solutions.

(Sorry, don't mind me, I'm just brainstorming, can't make the connections just yet)

Bonus Payments-via China-collect in person-bullet-head-solutions-outsource-no laws broken-dead bankers.

World a better place.

[SGirl]

Muntu said:

I thought tax avoidance was perfectly legal, and tax evasion is the problematic one?

You thought right. It is.

[JonRB]

Eric Mc said:

I can hear the word "fatwah" rising from the corridors of Whitehall even as we speak.

Yes, but Gordon Brown doesn't like being called "Wah"

[off_again]

V8mate said:

China exercises the death penalty each year, more times than every other country in the world added together.

Probably correct for pretty much everything that China does. They have the largest population and as a result they will always have the most of pretty much anything they turn their hands too. So a bit of a meaningless statistic that is over used in the media to grab your attention. Put some numbers to it and might be more interesting...

[MK4 Slowride]

I'm sure I read somewhere the Chinese will do the execution with a bullet to the head and send the family a bill for the bullet.

[FourWheelDrift]

V8mate said:

Death penalty for tax avoidance?

To be reserved only for government ministers who are especially keen to make sure none of the voting public can ever get away with any tax avoidance but who are in fact running offshore companies to avoid paying tax themselves. Broadcast live every Saturday evening just after Antndec, who are going first to test the system.