BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
28/02/2008
Belarusian Activist Ordered To Report Income For Entire Life
Homel tax authorities have ordered opposition activist Kanstantsin Zhukouski to report his entire life's earnings, Belapan reported on February 27. The authorities are investigating the sources from which Zhukouski has bought his house and car. "To provide for my family, I traveled to work in Russia for several years. Now someone does not like the fact that I have a house. Would the government like it better if my wife, child, and I were homeless?" Zhukouski said. The authorities earlier fined Zhukouski 1.75 million rubles ($817) for failing to declare $2,000 in cash that was presented to him as a wedding gift from Ukraine in March 2005, declaring that he violated a presidential decree that requires "foreign gratuitous aid" to be registered with the presidential administration's humanitarian assistance office. "What if authorities discover that my aunt presented a baby carriage on my birth and I failed to declare it?" Zhukouski said. AM
Source:
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2008/02/3-cee/cee-280208.asp
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