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Thursday, September 27, 2001

Taxes? We haven’t even started the alphabet yet

"A boy named Vasylko makes a journey into a forest that is plagued by evil. The young tyke is horrified to discover that hospitals and schools in the forest are crippled, while needy animals can barely make a living. Eventually he finds the source of the discontent: Zahrebun, a wicked warlock, has stolen the forestŐs budget and bewitched all animals so that they stop paying taxes."

Kyiv Post. The Ukrainian State Tax Administration is publishing a book for six-year-olds and distributing it to every elementary school in order to instill an ethos against tax-dodging. Only 60 percent of Ukranian taxpayers pay voluntarily.

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