Venezuela Tax Office Temporarily Shuts H-P, Motorola Offices

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela Tax Office Temporarily Shuts H-P, Motorola Offices

CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's Seniat tax office has temporarily shut the administrative offices of Hewlett Packard and Motorola amid a wider campaign to curb tax evasion, the Seniat said Thursday.

The offices of Hewlett-Packard's local affiliate will be shut for three days, while Motorola's will be shut for two days. The companies will also have to pay token fines of $781 and $391, respectively, for bookkeeping irregularities, according to the tax office.

In 2003 the Seniat began an aggressive push to combat tax evasion that included closing the offices of large firms with bookkeeping irregularities. Strict tax enforcement and robust economic growth has helped boost tax collection in recent years. The agency plans to surpass its 2006 tax-collection goal by at least 20%.
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http://www.cellular-news.com/story/19240.php

[Judi Lynn]

1. VENEZUELA: Government announces offensive against paramilitaries

VENEZUELA: Government announces offensive against paramilitaries

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas

“It is not possible the continued massacre of our campesinos ”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared during the August 6 edition of Alo Presidente, his weekly TV program. “They Braulio Alvarez , and no-one is guilty. The chiefs of police must respond to these acts ... if they feel incapable they must resign.

Venezuelan campesinos are facing violence from right-wing paramilitary groups opposed to the “Bolivarian revolution” led by Chavez’s government. Part of the Bolivarian process has been land reform, distributing under-utilised land to landless peasants.

Venezuela’s economy has traditionally been reduced to providing cheap oil to First World countries, with the rest of the economy, and the majority of the people, left abandoned. By taking under-utilised land owned by a small, rich minority who have traditionally controlled most of the country’s agricultural land and redistributing it to landless peasants to work in cooperatives, the revolution can both develop agriculture and tackle poverty.

On August 18, Chavez announced the creation of civilian-military security units in the large farms that have been taken over during the fight against the latifundia (large land holdings) in Barinas, Apure and Tachira states.

The Venezuelan president was responding to mounting popular anger over the wave of murders, kidnappings and extortion affecting the country, particularly in the states bordering Colombia. Blame has focused on right-wing Colombian paramilitaries hired by Venezuelan latifundistas to intimidate campesinos who move to take control of under-utilised land.
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/683/683p12b.htm

[Vidar]

2. Viva Chavez!

[WhiteTara]

3. recently he took the golf courses

through eminent domain and is building housing for the poor in the slums.

This man is a true leader. I wish we had one.

[1932]

5. Chavez opposed the Caracas mayor's plan to do that.

[Pavulon]

4. Evil Hp

With their overpriced laserjet 9000. Taking the working man's rights to a commercial 60 page a minute printer away. I mean they are an evil corporation and need to be crushed.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Who would have thought enforcing a company's obligation to pay taxes

could be described as "crushing?"

Flippancy is usually a waste of time.