Slot machines are legal in Germany.....under a fair number of regulations. You (as a pub, bar or restaurant) go to the city and get a permit. You admit....x-number of machines, and pay a taxation fee. Most will tell you that it's a marginal profit by the end.
If you asked me how many Germans actively play slots? I'd say it's 95-percent male-orientated....probably one German guy out of fifty.
So this week....in my town of Wiesbaden....a police raid occurred. What the cops say....they busted the maintenance facility of such machines, and this goes hand-in-hand with a two-year investigation of the region....with unlicensed slots.
Yeah, these pubs/bars....had machines in operation....with no license.
From what they figure....locally....forty-odd machines....there was a five-figure amount of untaxed income flowing back to someone.
So the parties involved....in trouble for unlicensed operations, and then dealing with the German tax folks.
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I've noticed, you can murder someone in Germany and get 8 years. You screw with your taxes and get 20 to life.
If you murdered with 'intent'....planned out....you will get 20. On average....there's 500 to 650 a year. The average is around 80-percent 'solved'. Out of the past decade in Wiesbaden.....if you add them up...maybe eight total (I think all were solved)...two or three folks were sent off for mental elevation and failed (they will spend the rest of their life in a facility).
Screwing around with income and avoiding taxes? Yeah...you will easily get five years. There are a thousand ways to sneak around income. Around 20 years ago....some German guy had 'hidden' income out in Greece/Cyprus....refusing to bring the income 'home'....he bought some ferry and operated it as a non-German company for several years. Germans eventually figured his scheme out.
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