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» "Temporary Marriages" Would Let Couples Opt Out After 2 Years - SLATE

Til death do us part just got a ‘get out of jail free’ card from the Mexican government, who seeks to create ‘temporary’ marriage of sorts just in case you want a bail out early into the union…. NICE.

Link posted at 8:50 PM (7 months ago) | Permalink

“Swimming Pool? What swimming pool?” Tax dodgers and Grecian debt crisis…

Swimming Pool? What Swimming Pool?

Just 324 residents of Athens’s wealthy northern suburbs reported in their recent tax returns that they owned swimming pools. That’s less than 2% of the 16,974 pools found when tax investigators examined satellite photos, according to a New York Times report on the pervasiveness of tax dodging in Greece and its impact on the country’s debt crisis.

Source:  HBR Daily Stat www.twitter.com/thedailystat &

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.html

Posted at 1:19 PM (1 year ago) | Permalink

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