Comments on: Just because you don’t like tax does not give you a licence to undermine other people’s tax systems http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/02/20/just-because-you-dont-like-tax-does-not-give-you-a-licence-to-undermine-other-peoples-tax-systems/ Richard Murphy on tax and corporate accountability Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark Morris http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/02/20/just-because-you-dont-like-tax-does-not-give-you-a-licence-to-undermine-other-peoples-tax-systems/#comment-385428 Mark Morris Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:44:02 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/02/20/just-because-you-dont-like-tax-does-not-give-you-a-licence-to-undermine-other-peoples-tax-systems/#comment-385428 The inmates are now running the ward... Look at this amazing news out today Two lawyers in Berlin on Tuesday brought criminal charges against German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck and intelligence agents for "embezzling" taxpayers' money by allegedly buying a stolen computer disc containing confidential data from the whistle-blower. They said the informant had "committed a serious crime under Liechtenstein law" by selling the disc, adding: "The government does not have the right to spend money to enable a crime." The inmates are now running the ward… Look at this amazing news out today

Two lawyers in Berlin on Tuesday brought criminal charges against German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck and intelligence agents for “embezzling” taxpayers’ money by allegedly buying a stolen computer disc containing confidential data from the whistle-blower.

They said the informant had “committed a serious crime under Liechtenstein law” by selling the disc, adding: “The government does not have the right to spend money to enable a crime.”

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