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Tax Collection
By Carsten | June 21, 2005
This is what I call a novel idea…
Went out to eat with some of my hosts today at a very nice restaurant — I’ve now officially eaten Peking duck in Peking (Beijing) 
When the dinner was over and the bill paid, some little discussion went on and the waiter came back with a new piece of paper. One of the people at the table started scratching at what, for all intents and purposes, looked like a lottery ticket. I asked what that was all about.
“That was the receipt”. Uh-huh, and why is there a place to scratch off to check a hidden number?
It turns out that the Chinese government has issued restaurants with official receipts that they are to give guests on requests. Once the receipt has been printed, there’s no way the restaurant can keep it out of the books. To make sure the customers ask for the receipt, they have instituted a lottery where every receipt is a ticket to win a price.
Now that is a sleek way to make sure the taxes are paid.
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September 7th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
[...] You can read how the government makes sure that taxes are collected, here. [...]