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[stefantalpalaru]

> So complicit are your governments that in several European countries bribes still are tax-deductible.

He must be confusing Europe with the US where bribing is called "lobbying" and is usually not tax deductible: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch11.html#en_US_2014_pu...

While we also have corruption at all levels of government in Europe, we still consider bribing illegal. Doing creative accounting to hide the bribes is also illegal.

[ariwilson → stefantalpalaru]

I think this is referring to bribing foreign officials, not officials of the European country. See, e.g. the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

[stefantalpalaru → ariwilson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States#...

[differentView → stefantalpalaru]

He was referring to bribery of other countries such as Brazil and Saudi Arabia in his examples.