Beyond the Pale.DISGUISED AS "YOUNG FASHION BAR CUStomers," they entered the most sacred of drinking holes--Irish pubs--then cracked down. Argentina's national tax service sent undercover inspectors to 20 of the largest Celtic pubs A Celtic pub is a public house which has an expressed or tacit affiliation to Celtic Football Club. Generally this affiliation takes the form of its clientele being supporters of that football side and the bar being full of them on days when matches are being shown on television, in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. and turned up 11 that allegedly were not providing sales receipts to customers--the paperwork required for tracking income at commercial establishments. The sweep is part of President Fernando de la R[acute{u}]a's crackdown on tax dodging, which former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Michel Camdessus Michel Camdessus (born 1 May 1933) was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000. Among the most important events of his tenure was the East Asian financial crisis. once called Argentina's second favorite sport after soccer. Authorities filed the pub crawl under "control of dancing sites and Celtic and Irish bars." There is no word if the tax inspectors tax inspector n → inspector(a) m/f de Hacienda tax inspector n (Brit) → percepteur m tax inspector tax (Brit were allowed to drink on the job. |
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