THE practice of tax avoidance is not a recent phenomenon. Indeed it goes further back than 1798, the year William Pitt introduced income tax in England.
It probably began as much as 6,000 years ago when the local king in a small region of Mesopotamia eventually imposed fines on those who swam across the river to avoid the dues on the local ferry.
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