Income Tax Commission: It is inconceivable that dentists pay tax, while drug dealers do not.
Hebrew daily “Yediot Ahronot” reports that fortune-tellers, unlicensed healers, black-market money-changers, massage parlors, traffickers in women and illegal gambling den owners will be some of the key targets of the Income Tax Commission investigations branch in 2003.
Deputy Income Tax Commissioner Jackie Matza decided that investigator will stress discovering tax evasion by sectors that evade tens or even hundreds of millions of shekels in taxes in the 2003 working year. p>The income tax investigators will examine the books of importers and exporters, their overseas bank accounts, commissions and other activities that were not reported to the Income Tax Commission. The investigators will also focus on sports clubs that pay salaries to their players and commissions to agents. The Income Tax Commission already focused on this sector last year, discovering considerable tax evasion.
Drug dealers will also have to pay tax on their drug deals after their convictions. The Income Tax Commission states it is inconceivable that dentists pay tax on their legitimate transactions, while drug dealers who earn millions on illegal drug deals do not.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on February 25, 2003