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Home Sweet Pension
Anything To Declare?
Death And Taxes
His And Hers
Oh, Gross!
We Didn't Mean It
Agassi Wins
Time To Go
It Could Be Worse...
Trivial Pursuit
Re: Mortgages
A Marriage Made In...
Time's Money
Show Business
Scam Of The Decade?
Gift Aid
Vat's Hot!
Wait For It
A Good Buy?
Know Your Articles
Rights And Wrongs
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Tax inspectors suffer from something of an image problem - probably undeserved, as many of them are helpful and dedicated, but their job is doing something unpopular and they can't avoid the bad press. But a recent case in the European Court of Human Rights highlighted an alarming possibility. In Lithuania, as in several of the countries of the former Soviet Union, there are restrictions on former KGB agents being given government jobs. One man was turned down for the post of tax inspector for this reason. He argued successfully that this was a breach of his human rights - he claimed that he had only been working in counter-intelligence, so perhaps he had not personally been breaching other people's rights in the past. Perhaps the Inland Revenue will look to Eastern Europe for their next recruitment drive - the KGB should be VG at collecting NIC, CGT and IHT.
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