The Treasury fiscally harasses the citizen like predators in the jungle to their prey.
Is the State economically stimulating civil servants to coerce other citizens democratic?; ¿is it ethical? Apparently not because the “chosen” are not treated like the rest by being coerced, and all sorts of data that were never requested before are claimed. Predators in the jungle, with lots of prey, concentrate on hunting one prey until it is drained. How many repeated inspections are abusive? How do they choose victims? A single judicial sentence against such practice should end it. Such sentences against Inland Revenue have taken place, but this practice continues. The quantitative ideology, which consists in evaluating the work of people and organisations and is based on “amounts”, has devastating effects on people’s freedom.
In Spain, we put up with excessive, coercive and abusive Public Administration practices. It has been “published” with scare transparency that Inland Revenue encourages tax inspectors according to the results obtained by inspecting. I am not criticising inspections, rather economic motivation and repeatedly inspecting victims. If dealings are particularly coercive, the selected victims waste freedom, time and money, and must seek counselling and answer Inland Revenue. As taking Inland Revenue to court also incurs many more lawyers’ expenses and years awaiting a legal ruling, many prefer to “declare being guilty” and pay. So Inland Revenue collects more money and its inspectors are paid bonuses. The Judicial System could encourage rapidly solving cases; the appeal against the Law on Abortion has been in the Constitutional Court for 12 years, and is never settled. Meanwhile, the communist abortist agenda makes progress. Work inspectors inspect the private sector, but never check if thousands of public workers complete their working schedule. Some videos on YouTube show how Spanish civil servants never complete their working hours every day. Do school inspectors fulfil their obligation in schools in Catalonia regarding the use of Spanish? They apparently obey political orders. A Valencian civil servant was paid for one decade without going to work.
Humans are imperfect and inspectors may be tempted to be paid bonuses, take shortcuts, by selecting victims until they are exhausted. A rewarded inspector abuses to obtain benefits at the expense of coercing other “selected” citizens until they are exhausted. If success is awarded and failure is not penalised, then benefit involves no risk. It seems unfair, especially when more than half the appeals against Inland Revenue are won with legal rulings. A democratic State should forbid this practice every time there is a firm sentence against it. Such bonuses are rooted in socialism to generate privileges for civil servants, such as “days off” (absent without explaining why). Who watches supervisers? Roman poet Juvenal wondered this in his Satires in the first and second centuries. He suspected his wives’ loving infidelity. His friends advised him to control and lock up his wives. He answered, and what if those you trust to control and avoid infidelity end up committing it? Hence the importance of separating powers so that the State does not oppress citizens.
Inland Revenue uses the State machine against citizens, who know that if they appeal, they need to seek lawyers and spend their own money, obey and then years later, when a court is held, they are never compensated even though they win. It looks like rewarded blackmail because tax inspectors are paid variable rewards for sanctions. Do tax inspectors return bonuses when they lose lawsuits? Are they qualified?; that is, have they acquired enough legal knowledge to know that they have correctly interpreted the law? Inspectors are not lawyers; they “interpret”, but judges are those who penalise. If the police are economically rewarded to make fines or solve crimes, then surely some official guilty parties would be innocent. If a university is economically rewarded for its number of graduates, degrees would be given away. What needs to be inspected in Spain is wasted public expense, which is not done. I get the impression that inspectors obey political orders and apply abuse by action or oversight. Political parties with liberal principles should act.
Post published in Las Provincias