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UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details
Andrew Smith writes "The UK taxman (HM Revenue & Customs) is reportedly using a stolen list of bank details to pursue wealthy individuals with off-shore accounts. The list was stolen by an employee of HSBC, and gave details of the bank's customers with money in Swiss accounts. The bank employee fled to France, and the authorities there passed the details on to the UK tax collection agency."
Ah, I see. Necessary taxes and programs are those that benefit you directly. Unnecessary welfare taxes and programs are those that you do not benefit from. Nice.
I hope you die from some really rare and painful disease after your medical coverage is terminated because it hit its lifetime maximum.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
It's not stolen, it's worse, it's an illegal copy. Swiss bank should sue french and english governments for "pirating" their data and ask for 10 times more the amount of taxes and fines collected from the taxes + a ridiculos amount for lost sales/customers.
Not quite. Since the information in question is not any kind of creative work (apart from possibly creative bookkeeping) but merely a collection of facts, it is not copyrightable in most countries, and definitely not in the EU.
Now, is it bad that a banker is copying what is expected to be confidential information and selling it to outside parties? Certainly. But that does not make it copyright infringement.
And civilization is doomed if the news ever gets out that barbecued leprechaun tastes great when sprinkled generously with pixie dust...
Here is proof that humans preach genocide. You monsters, trying to incite the world into hunting us and EATING us as well? MONSTERS!
The information may have been merely copied, but it is being used to facilitate actual theft in the form of taxes.
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat