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Observations: One Crime Leads to Another

by P. Matzliach

The Income Tax Department is conducting a collection drive. Dozens of workers are descending on areas around the country to improve tax collection efficiency and to prevent tax evasion.

One of the key targets for catching tax violators is businesses that operate on Shabbos and yom tovim. Income tax authorities plan to increase the number of checks at such businesses.

When Income Tax Department Chief Superintendent Yitzhak Borshtein, who is in charge of bookkeeping, operations and field intelligence, discovered that investigating firms that do business on Shabbos and holidays was effective for tax authorities in their war against failure to write receipts, he notified members of the Bureau of Independent Organizations' Tax Committee.

This could have been good news, but unfortunately Chief Superintendent Borshtein says the inspections on Shabbos and holidays will be carried out by Jewish employees, who will also be paid overtime.

Although it is unacceptable for store owners, who are mechalelei Shabbos befarhesia as well as lawbreakers, to also steal state monies by dodging taxes, if eradicating this shameful practice means taking the no less shameful step of dispatching Jewish workers on Shabbos, it is certainly better to let them steal public funds than to add to the list of mechalelei Shabbos.


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