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Originally Posted by Vendot
This is where you fail. One of the most important rights is the right to privacy. It is usually the first one cited and since this is an attack on financial privacy, it is an attack on that fundamental right. In this case, impinge is probably a more suitable word than infringe.
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You certainly do NOT have the right to privacy in your financial affairs.
What makes you think that you do ?
You have to file your tax return and declare the source of your income and the beneficiary of any expenditure. If they suspect you are lying about any of that the tax authorities have the right to rip open every aspect of your life going back as long as they see fit. Every financial institution you have every spoken to will pour out its guts without even asking for a court order. In the UK Her Majesties Revenue and Customs have more powers than the police.
I must remember what you said the next time that the tax authorities want to route through my companies affairs and personal accounts. I will simply tell them to fuck off because the right to financial privacy is a fundamental right and it is a slippery slope to a Police state if I am weak enough to let them push me around.
