The recent Swiss Leaks, which have demonstrated that a number of prominent individuals were not declaring all their assets and, therefore, were evading tax, was the cloud.
However, even this cloud has its silver lining. In fact, we can now confirm that, with the exclusion of some prominent persons, all the citizens of this country – all of them, including yours truly – are honest taxpayers.
All of them declare every penny that they earn on their income tax return.
All of them pay their VAT, even when they are offered a cheaper price without a VAT receipt.
They never resort to sick leave, even when, in fact, they have some more important domestic work to do.
We are all such law-abiding citizens that we have no idea what the word abuse means.