So where are the real big fish? Nearly three weeks into the Aquino presidency and not a big fish is being caught, much less in his sight. The public instead was treated to a fat fish, which temporarily stops the craving but there still is nothing big to hang up the wall. Presented before the public last week as a supposed showcase of the effort against tax cheats in a Lamborghini-riding pawnshop operator. The Bureau of Internal Revenue last Thursday filed before the Department of Justice, a criminal complaint for tax evasion in the amount of P22.5 million against a pawnshop owner. Pawnbrokers do get rich, but compared to the really rich tax evaders and smugglers, that pawnbroker held up as the Noynoy administration’s Exhibit A, is a small fry. Noynoy’s promise was for a rich haul of the country’s biggest smugglers to fire off his drive against corruption and tax fraud. During the campaign period, Noynoy even bragged that he already holds a list of the country’s top smugglers and he promised they will start falling the moment he steps into Malacañang. That moment was some three weeks back. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100719com1.html |
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