Al Capone, Lester Piggott and now ... Adolf Hitler

[emad]

Luke Harding in Berlin
Saturday December 18, 2004
The Guardian

He is better known for invading Poland and starting the second world war.

But Adolf Hitler was also an inveterate tax dodger, it emerged yesterday, who systematically evaded paying his tax bills both before and after he became Germany's dictator.

According to new records discovered in a Munich archive, by the time he became Germany's chancellor in 1933 Hitler owed more than 400,000 Reichsmarks in unpaid taxes.

The money - the equivalent of about €6m (£4.1m) today - was written off the following year under a secret deal with the tax authorities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1376472,00.html

ADD to that list General Augusto Pinochet.....what a cosy little club!

[BiggJawn]

1. Made a lot of money off of "Mein Kampf", didn't he?

I always wonder about that, since his book sold millions of copies..

Anyone intersted in a badly-writen tome about a bicycle, an old fat man, and his struggle with diabetes and obesity?

Yeah, me neither....

[jobycom]

2. Bush

Has skated on his debts, too. The SEC found that he violated the law over his Harken Energies insider trading, but they decided not to press charges. Bush and his Rangers' investment group also owed the Curtis Mathis family or the City of Arlington several million for having the Texas legislature steal a piece of land from the CM family and sell it as part of the sale of the Texas Rangers. Bush refused to pay anything.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. I'm sure it may be (like that I'm sure it may be?) easy to skate out of

just about anything if your daddy has been at the head of CIA. I am sure they can bring unbearable pressure against just about anyone... whether the embarrassing data is true or merely contrived.

[jobycom]

5. At the time Daddy was president. nt.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. if your daddy >>has

[bin.dare]

4. Lester Piggott, most famous english jockey, was jailed ...

for one year in 1985 for not paying taxes. because of this, the queen took back the OBE she gave in in 1975.