Re: Brazil cops arrest Cisco executives on tax fraud -OT

From: Gabriel Nunes (gabriel.nunes@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 00:10:01 ART


This situation means in Brazil: Perdeu! Perdeu!

:-)

On 10/17/07, Leandro Reis <leandrodarochareis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It had a huge repercussion here in Brazil, and I can say it's not
> political.
>
> Some technology companies here creates some kind of "workaround" to go
> away
> from the high import duties, one of them is that the tax for software is
> far
> below the one for hardware, so let's import all equipment declaring it
> costs
> 1 dollar for hardware and the remaining as software. The problem is that
> either Cisco or their distributor here made a ex-employee not happy... you
> know... angry ex-employee, ex-wife, ex-secretary are always the beginning
> of
> a scandalous :)
> This person gave all details to the Federal Police, the Brazilian FBI.
>
> Well, since yesterday, all Cisco offices were closed here... everybody
> working from home. Let's see what's next.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Leandro Reis, CCIE #17764
>
>
> On 10/17/07, kaelwyoung@netscape.net <kaelwyoung@netscape.net> wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like politics.
> >
> >
> > http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071017/business/business8.html
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