Saturday, January 14, 2017

Gave up against bureaucracy – the tax paid in the coin – Aftonbladet

Nick had been in conflict with the authority of several months – and eventually he got bored with me, because he has not got answers to their questions. So he decided to be just as difficult back, reports the Buzzfeed.

Nick Stafford from the Virginia has had an ongoing feud with the DMV – the us counterpart to the Swedish transport agency – since september. It started with that he rang the office to find out where he would register his car, because he owns several homes in the area.

Stafford sent between different phone companies and had to wait over an hour to get response. He decided to make a request to the court for the direct number to the people working at the DMV to be able to come up faster, something that was granted.

But when he called the direct number, he was told that he was not allowed to call there. Even if he finally got the answer to his question, he did so incident to a court of law. Nick Stafford said that it is important that the authorities become more and more attentive to citizens ‘ requests and needs.

– the Backbone of a democratic society is transparent authorities, period, ” says Stafford to Buzzfeed.

When he would have to pay tax on almost 3 000 dollars – over 25 000 sek – after having sold a few cars, he came on that it was a good opportunity to give again – and let the DMV to waste a bit of their own time. Stafford therefore chose to switch out the coins to the smallest possible denomination – pennies. A total of weighed load – approximately 300 000 coins – over 700 kilos.

the Coins were placed in wheelbarrows, and eleven people had to be hired in order to help. According to Buzzfeed, it took over twelve hours for the staff at bilskattekontoret to count the coins.

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment