Even if the Revenue functionaries framed a good scheme, it could not be put into practice with any chance of success, ro permeated is the whole country with the system of political pulls. Some striking examples are given by one of the Tenders of the officials' association, In 1928 an inspector discovered that, a large, manufacturer in the south had concealed Frs. 5,000,000 of war profits. He drew up a report which was pigeonholed. Tle went ever. the heads of his superiors and wrote to three successive Ministers of Finance, He received no answer, and the manufacturer was appointed of the judges of the commercial tribunal of his town, Detachments. of exciseman who were keeping too close wath on distillers in the Jura and Cote door were disbanded and sent elsewhere, The record of every revenue officer contains particulars not only of his services and abilo ities but of his political opinions, and this information is sometimes supplied by men whom he is supposed to watch,
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