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Originally Posted by xmas13
Hey Canadians, what's up with the tax obsession. What about looking into your own backyard. Vancouver is a notorious washing machine for 'dirty' money from China. And we are not talking about $1000 here and there, but more like $10 million here and there.
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heh, have you ever lived in downtown Vancouver. It's quite funny. Classified as the world's most livable city, the downtown is extremely wealthy, clean, etc... yet, almost everything in downtown Van is cash based.
I lived there for over a year, and basically never used my ATM machine, or any plastic. Time to get paid? Visit a client at a cafe, and pickup a ziploc bag full of cash. Time to pay rent? Put 20 $100 bills into an envelope, and wait for the landlord to arrive. Nothing plastic in downtown Van.
Might be one of the wealthier cities out there, but it's a huge black market economy.
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