Today Inwards Cz: Get-Go Deadline For A Novel Anti-Capitalist Harassment

The cope against taxation evasion isn't a valid excuse for restrictions of basic freedoms

This is a continuation of my previous weblog post service nigh the steps dorsum towards socialism inwards Czechia.



Exactly 48 years ago, on Feb 25th, 1948, the Czechoslovak communist prime number government minister Klement Gottwald (who had that chore because commies won the democratic elections inwards 1946) visited the democratic president Dr Edvard Beneš in addition to convinced him to remove the resignation filed 5 days before past times a bunch of non-communist ministers inwards the coalition authorities who were desperately trying to halt the arrival of a communist dictatorship.

They receive got failed, Beneš didn't dissolve the Parliament etc. Instead, he accepted the resignations in addition to fuilfilled Gottwald's wishing to supervene upon all of them past times communist in addition to communist-compatible ministers. The inarticulate Gottwald came to the Old Town Square in addition to informed the pro-communist working-class losers at a rally that the people's democratic regime – the communist totalitarianism – had exactly begun.




Given the residue of mightiness inwards post-war Czechoslovakia, this sort of had to occur. Communism was decimating Czechoslovakia for the next 41+ years. The electrical flow Czech prime number minister, billionaire, in addition to old communist snitch Mr Babiš wanted to arrive spectacularly self-evident that these big-government aßholes are inwards accuse of things again. So he imposed the commencement deadline for his novel outrageous tool of bureaucratic terror to hold out on Feb 25th, the "Victorious February" equally communists loved to telephone phone the coup.




Babiš is introducing at to the lowest degree ii novel annoying things that volition trim down the liberty of the entrepreneurs, self-employed people, in addition to corporations, in addition to add together lots of useless operate to all of them:

• The electronic registers of cash payments. Everyone, including the smallest rural pubs, volition receive got to receive got a gadget printing the receipts in addition to connected to the Internet in addition to every fourth dimension someone buys a beer, Babiš volition hold out informed nigh the transaction – every unmarried cash transaction inwards our damn economy.
• The verification reports or whatever is the English linguistic communication cite of this novel document. That's what has the commencement deadline today. Every calendar month (companies) or every quarter (smaller entrepreneurs), people doing concern volition receive got to send a total listing of their cashless payments to/and/from other value-added taxation payers.

Both things receive got already been approved inwards the Parliament, despite the heroic efforts of the non-left-wing opposition to halt it. But Babiš in addition to his thugs receive got restricted the speaking inwards the Parliament – in addition to and thence they behaved equally if speaking were impossible fifty-fifty at the grade they previously codified. As far equally I tin say, this deportment of the Babiš's authorities was unconstitutional in addition to these anti-parliamentary steps were past times themselves were to a greater extent than than plenty for Babiš to deserve the expiry penalization equally before long equally this insane Babišomania is over, at to the lowest degree when it comes to my permission to provide the electrical electric flow to Babiš's electrical chair.

At the goal of 2016, the cash registers volition larn mandatory. Every transfer of cash volition hold out monitored.

The verification reports that the companies receive got to send past times today (the commencement study summarizing Jan 2016) are designed to study all cashless transfers betwixt the payers of the value-added taxation to Babiš. So this giant aßhole believes that he has the right to know the magnitude in addition to destination of every unmarried payment of his competitors in addition to everyone else. And millions of clueless Czechs intend that it's exactly OK.

The justification of the cash registers is the cope against taxation evasion past times pubs, hairdressers, in addition to similar services. They are said non to pay taxes from their income in addition to the cash registers volition forcefulness them to pay. In most cases, the people merely create pay the taxes in addition to this volition alone hateful some extra amazing operate in addition to the loss of confidentiality of their business.

In some cases, people don't pay taxes but they postulate to avoid the taxation because they're right inwards a higher house the bankruptcy. Many of these businesses volition hold out shut (Croatia has shown us the harmful outcome of the cash registers inwards practice) – sometimes, the people running rural pubs etc. won't fifty-fifty hold out technically able to bargain amongst the required IT. This volition increment the unemployment in addition to require the authorities to pay to a greater extent than coin inwards the welfare. Also, the prices volition transcend upwardly past times the taxes that weren't paid thence far – thence every consumer volition ultimately pay it, anyway.

There is a 3rd grouping of people who earn a lot of coin in addition to they're genuinely evading taxation. I intend that most of this greyness economic scheme volition proceed on existing. If the seller in addition to the buyer concord to brand a transaction that is invisible to the government, they are violating law but no i – in addition to no bureaucratic government's innovation similar to cash registers – tin genuinely forbid them from doing so. Invisible transactions send risks but they also convey advantages.

Cash registers are primarily tools to add together lots of hassle to the honest entrepreneurs in addition to companies – in addition to accountants who volition receive got to create much operate for them. Babiš has already accepted i declaration – that this extra terror volition increment the cost of beer inwards the pubs in addition to similar things. So he wants to trim down the taxation charge per unit of measurement for beer inwards the pubs equally a compensation. Imagine that. So the final result is that the authorities volition collect the same amount of coin from beers inwards the pub – but people volition receive got far to a greater extent than operate to bargain amongst the bureaucracy. This is a textbook illustration of a totally idiotic policy.

The verification reports that companies receive got to send past times today are claimed to cope against the carousel frauds. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 band of criminal entities sometimes sell products in addition to services to each other inwards a loop in addition to i of them disappears in addition to pockets the value-added taxation etc. I concord that this is taking house in addition to the verification reports volition arrive easier to uncovering these carousels (but some fraudsters are existence constitute without the verification reports, too, thence it's clearly non impossible now). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few billion dollars a twelvemonth volition hold out recovered. But the cost is exactly astronomical. There volition hold out a database of all transactions betwixt businesses – a database cook for the communist snitch Babiš to await at, cook to hold out hacked past times hackers, in addition to thence on.

(The unacceptably dangerous obsolete safety certificates that are supposed to hold out used past times the cash registers are a terrifying plenty ground to avoid this policy past times themselves but I don't wishing to verbalise over technicalities.)

About 89% of accountants loathe the novel verification report. (For them, it's a lot of extra work, confusion, in addition to sometimes huge fines they volition hold out held responsible for. When it comes to confusion: the study has to hold out filled incorrectly for it to hold out valid in addition to it has to hold out sent through illegal electronic channels.) There are lots of technical problems amongst all those things. Each of them would hold out plenty to regard that these novel inventions are absolutely crazy. But they are emerging because a slight bulk of the Czechs favor this form of junk. The supporters include people similar my manlike someone bring upwardly who has been doing concern in addition to was supporting right-wing politicians for decades – in addition to was anti-communist, at to the lowest degree "carefully", during communism. But he exactly parrots all this amazing rubbish past times Babbish. How of import it is to pay taxes. How self-employed people are thieves. How everyone is obliged to cooperate amongst Babiš, in addition to thence on. I believe that my generation is mostly against these "not thence innovative" inventions.

At the end, the barrier that separates the people into the ii camps is absolutely ideological inwards character. The supporters of the Babiš's terror are to a greater extent than oftentimes than non people who believe that the authorities is the most of import thing that defines judge in addition to has all the rights – in addition to that taxes are the most of import funds that receive got to motion correctly. But this is null else than a communist, totalitarian mindset.



Victorious Feb 2016: the goal to entrepreneurship? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 1950s-style banner past times the Entrepreneur Party featuring PM Sobotka in addition to FinMin de facto PM Babiš.

The fact that Babiš became a finance government minister – despite his inability to demo his create clean tape when it comes to the cooperation amongst the communist hugger-mugger constabulary – in addition to that he has impressed millions of f*cking losers doesn't give him the right to house himself inwards a higher house all other entrepreneurs, to obtain the information that no i else has the moral right to obtain the information in addition to to forcefulness millions of people create things that they are non obliged to create according to the constitution in addition to basic decency equally understood inwards a costless society.

What most of the supporters of Babiš's policies genuinely wishing is to give the finger to the entrepreneurs in addition to self-employed people, to demo them that the dry soil has returned to the hands of similar f*cking losers who were applauding Gottwald inwards 1948 when that šitty moron has barely constructed a judgement nigh his see to the Prague Castle.

The really philosophy in addition to the actual root of all the back upwardly for this bureaucratic terror is the wishing of millions of losers to brand the life to a greater extent than complicated for the people who are to a greater extent than practiced in addition to successful than they are. These losers – Babiš's supporters – wishing to demo that all capitalists are suspect in addition to the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to them. They wishing to believe that it is right to hold out a fellow member of an anonymous mob of millions of employees inwards a row in addition to everyone else is suspect in addition to should hold out harassed past times the mob. For that reason, the authorities has the right to need everything from the successful people.

These ii mechanisms to rails the transactions may hold out viewed exactly equally ii technicalities. But they're the most well-defined symptoms of something much to a greater extent than full general in addition to much to a greater extent than pernicious, namely the wishing of millions of Czechs to de facto render dorsum to socialism inwards which the authorities was at the ticker of all events in addition to had all the tools to monitor in addition to limit the people's deportment of all sorts in addition to inwards all ways.

You know, taxes be inwards most countries. Up to a sure point, they are tolerable. But they are exactly tools for the authorities – for the nation – to collect some coin for their mutual activities in addition to redistribution. The collection itself shouldn't hold out the purpose. It should hold out exactly the "price" that has to hold out minimized. The role is to collect some money. Only the total amount of the taxation revenue matters in addition to if in that location are ways to collect the same coin inwards a smoother way, i that minimally annoys the taxpayers, this means must ever hold out preferred.

It's exactly absolutely terrible that in i lawsuit again, i tin come across millions of Czechs who volition disagree fifty-fifty amongst the declaration that the government shouldn't unnecessarily harass citizens who haven't been shown to receive got committed crime.

Much of it boils downwardly to jealousy. But fifty-fifty if a barber doesn't pay income taxes in addition to volition hold out forced to create so, her income volition alone hold out some 15% lower. So instead of half dozen BMW cars, she volition hold out able to purchase 5 BMW cars. It won't genuinely alter anything qualitative nigh the fact that she's successful spell the jealous losers are not.

More importantly, the taxation isn't the primary purpose of the barber work. The primary role is for her to earn the coin in addition to for her clients to hold out served. The taxes are exactly some small-scale fraction of the fiscal compensation that the authorities in addition to peculiarly the losers that the authorities represents steal from the barber and/or her clients. It's a tiny cherry on a pie. You merely can't promote it to something that decides nigh her business. If you lot intend that you lot can, in addition to thence you lot are a hardcore communist.

The right-wing parties receive got promised to abolish both the electronic cash registers in addition to the verification reports a solar daytime subsequently they render to the power. (This is a ground why Parliamentary obstructions are oftentimes sensible despite their mightiness to forbid the bulk from deciding nigh policies. They highlight the fact that a sure policy is thence hated past times sure groups that it doesn't receive got the broad plenty back upwardly of the nation to hold out sustainable inwards the long run.) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 job is that the non-communist politicians who made similar statements inwards Feb 1948 had to hold back for 41 years to revert the Gottwaldian policies. The back upwardly for Babiš is a symptom of some terrible illness of a large business office of the nation in addition to this illness isn't guaranteed to hold out cured anytime soon.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 huge bulk of the pro-capitalist independently productive people loathe these novel policies. And government minister Babiš has admitted that he realizes that a meg of people wishing him to hold out killed which is why he has stolen some coin for professional person bodyguards hired to protect his life. Wouldn't it hold out wiser in addition to cheaper to notice that these critics receive got a indicate – instead of edifice a huge fortress around this pol whose deportment is unforgivably arrogant?



Czexit

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 unlike number related to Czech politics. As John noticed, lots of English-speaking media including Politico.com, The Telegraph, Breitbart, in addition to The Express receive got reported the words of our prime number government minister Sobotka that if British voters select to leave of absence the EU, Czech Republic volition hold out amid the commencement followers to ground the difference from the EU, or Czexit inwards our case. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 meliorate spelling could hold out Czechzit. ;-)

You must realize that these words were said past times the social democratic PM whose mental attitude to the European Union is similar to Cameron's (and may hold out summarized past times the word "sycophancy") but who may cope for the "stay" final result fifty-fifty to a greater extent than strongly than Cameron. (So it's funny when, unsurprisingly, Sobotka is oftentimes painted equally a cheerleader for a Czexit exactly because he dared to enjoin the word.) However, others volition sure defend the "leave" result. About 59% of Czech citizens chose "Czexit" inwards recent surveys. Both right-wing ODS in addition to the communists could hold out amid those who could back upwardly Czexit. The Free Citizens Party already supports Czexit now.

The importance of Brexit, Czexit etc. is existence heavily overstated. The countries would yet remain inwards many of the European Union structures that clearly operate – in addition to whether they could larn independent of diverse detailed European Union regulations would hold out a hard technical decision. In particular, I create believe that United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland or Czech Republic subsequently leaving the European Union would remain inwards the shared marketplace seat zone in addition to many things nigh travelling would remain equally elementary equally they are now. You may regard what some of the things would await similar if you lot consider the illustration of Kingdom of Norway or Switzerland.

So this word is much ado nigh nothing. The European Union is non essential – but its touching on us can't hold out quite eliminated, either, because the European Union is "at least" a powerful vecino you lot don't wishing to bloodily cope against.

Politico.com also quotes some people proverb that Czexit would hateful the "return of Czech Republic to the Russian sphere of influence". This is exactly a lame form of fearmongering. Why don't they enjoin the same thing nigh Brexit? Obviously, if the relative mightiness of Brussels inwards Prague decreases, the relative mightiness of Moscow increases fifty-fifty if the absolute mightiness of Moscow stays the same. But is that bad? We are annoyed past times Brussels for many reasons – oftentimes because of things that non fifty-fifty Moscow used to need us to do!

So yes, I concord that the relative influence of Moscow would increment subsequently Czexit but I totally disagree amongst the knee-jerk suggestions that this fact would hateful a tragedy. What is genuinely bad is the centralized Soviet-style of governing inwards many countries. However, Brussels has been much to a greater extent than tightly connected amongst this Soviet spirit than Moscow inwards recent years!