Tax Fraud

We're in the awkward debate whether raising or lowering taxes, how much to pay the rich and who is rich and who is not.

But is not that.

The countries of central and northern Europe to blame us for our fiscal regime of the south, but strictly as they pay their taxes, all Quisque disappoint here. So when it was known that tax fraud in Greece is more than 25 percent, many European voices have said that the Greeks will help his mother.

And is that fiscal discipline is essential.

When Carlos Solchaga was former Minister of Finance and was advising some South American countries. "What should we do to improve our economy?" He asked. "People pay their taxes," said the former minister. "If we start asking the impossible, we are wrong," was the response of others.

You see the thing has its perendengues.

What is tax evasion in Spain? No figures are available, clear, and probably will not reach that of Greece, but surely not going far behind, as in Italy and in other neighboring countries. In indirect taxes everyone knows the familiar phrase: "Are you VAT invoice or VAT?". The rent of flats even worse: only in Benidorm, for example, it is estimated that the supply of illegal tourist apartments and houses exceeds 80,000 seats. Read that right: 80,000.

What about the general income tax? From people who simply do not declare for the nose to other business deductions that are invented, the rogue is infinite. And those low-paying, of course, are the ones who get in, because they do not easily verifiable through payroll.

I witnessed, once a business meeting in which they made the annual balance of the entity. "How much tax we pay," asked the president: "Given our earnings, 20 million," replied the CEO. "No way," replied the other, "Fix the numbers to pay only 6". And they did.

It is not, therefore, to invent absurd rescue anything or taxes, such as equity, but they pay who should pay.

Some more, of course, and some less, but all they do. And that the fraudster is hair loss. Oh, and that business is not taxed on reinvested profits that serve to create jobs, while being a stick, however, for the money carried by their managers face.

You see that things are easier than they seem.