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Finland: Police ask for tip-offs on cheap pizzas
By News from Elsewhere...
...as found by BBC Monitoring
Police in Finland are asking the public to report establishments offering cheap pizzas, as part of efforts to root out tax-dodgers.
The new campaign, which is being publicised on police social media accounts, asks people to inform officers if they spot a pizza on sale for under six euros (£4.50), national broadcaster Yle reports. "Unless a pizza is on temporary sale there is no way a legitimate establishment can offer pizza for less than six euros," Det Insp Minna Immonen of the Uusimaa police department is quoted as saying. Police are trying to crack down on the "grey economy", which costs the country millions of euros in lost tax revenue each year. They also want people to make sure they get a receipt for their pizzas, regardless of value.
Finns commenting on social media have reacted to the campaign with a mixture of bemusement and disbelief. "This pizza-receipt hunting is ridiculous," writes one user on the Economic Crime Investigators' Facebook page. "Shouldn't they concentrate those limited police investigative resources where real problems are?" Others are sceptical that the campaign will have any effect, with many blaming Finland's relatively high tax rates for the problem. "As long as the state 'steals' legitimately with high taxation, then companies will also steal from the government," says one user. Another complains that people are being used as "spies for the criminal investigators", writing: "Isn't it the police's responsibility to investigate this?"
And
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/17/449417422/bargain-pizza-call-the-finnish-police
Finnish police are on the lookout for a new batch of criminals. Their offense? Low pizza prices. Police are concerned that any pizza vendor who offers a bargain-rate pizza might be evading taxes.
So I was working a day shift in Helsinki when I got a call about a guy trying to sell a pepperoni pie for just a fiver. Police in Finland are asking people to call the cops if they find somebody trying to sell pizza for under six euros, or about $6.81 U.S. currency. What do you tell the police? Officers, come quick. I've just seen a man ring up a mozzarella and garlic for just $5.50. ULA, Finland's national broadcast network, quotes police officials as saying there's no way a legitimate establishment can offer pizza for less than six euros. Police are concerned that any pizza vendor who offers a bargain rate pizza might somehow be evading Finnish taxes, which a Finnish government website says are 14 percent for, quote, "foodstuffs, restaurant and catering services and animal feed," meaning, I suppose, that not even cows in Finland can get a pizza for under six euro.
Finland: Police ask for tip-offs on cheap pizzas
By News from Elsewhere...
...as found by BBC Monitoring
Police in Finland are asking the public to report establishments offering cheap pizzas, as part of efforts to root out tax-dodgers.
The new campaign, which is being publicised on police social media accounts, asks people to inform officers if they spot a pizza on sale for under six euros (£4.50), national broadcaster Yle reports. "Unless a pizza is on temporary sale there is no way a legitimate establishment can offer pizza for less than six euros," Det Insp Minna Immonen of the Uusimaa police department is quoted as saying. Police are trying to crack down on the "grey economy", which costs the country millions of euros in lost tax revenue each year. They also want people to make sure they get a receipt for their pizzas, regardless of value.
Finns commenting on social media have reacted to the campaign with a mixture of bemusement and disbelief. "This pizza-receipt hunting is ridiculous," writes one user on the Economic Crime Investigators' Facebook page. "Shouldn't they concentrate those limited police investigative resources where real problems are?" Others are sceptical that the campaign will have any effect, with many blaming Finland's relatively high tax rates for the problem. "As long as the state 'steals' legitimately with high taxation, then companies will also steal from the government," says one user. Another complains that people are being used as "spies for the criminal investigators", writing: "Isn't it the police's responsibility to investigate this?"
And
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/17/449417422/bargain-pizza-call-the-finnish-police
Finnish police are on the lookout for a new batch of criminals. Their offense? Low pizza prices. Police are concerned that any pizza vendor who offers a bargain-rate pizza might be evading taxes.
So I was working a day shift in Helsinki when I got a call about a guy trying to sell a pepperoni pie for just a fiver. Police in Finland are asking people to call the cops if they find somebody trying to sell pizza for under six euros, or about $6.81 U.S. currency. What do you tell the police? Officers, come quick. I've just seen a man ring up a mozzarella and garlic for just $5.50. ULA, Finland's national broadcast network, quotes police officials as saying there's no way a legitimate establishment can offer pizza for less than six euros. Police are concerned that any pizza vendor who offers a bargain rate pizza might somehow be evading Finnish taxes, which a Finnish government website says are 14 percent for, quote, "foodstuffs, restaurant and catering services and animal feed," meaning, I suppose, that not even cows in Finland can get a pizza for under six euro.
