| Being target of an investigation can have enormous costs. I've been there several times. I needed to provide ample of documents that took time to assemble and I needed to take part on in person hearings, once in a town 200 km away from my residence. Yes, they pay for the travel and by law my employer needs to provide me extra vacation for those days, but being the guy who needs to take 2 more days again doesn't necessarily boost your career and I'm sure my family would had appreciated if I spend the weekends with them instead of reading up legalisation. Neither case I've done anything wrong and I was always very cooperative. I broke, when I was fined for tax evasion, presented evidence on 3 hearings that they were wrong and after they revoked the fine, I still needed to pay interest as according to law I should had paid the fine while the appeal was in progress and since I didn't, I need to pay a surcharge for the delay.
Given the entire case was a huge government error I could had appeal against the surcharge, but I didn't want to go through 3 more hearings. You can absolutely bankrupt entire families both financially and emotionally with this shit. |