An idea that taxes should be paid provokes protest. People are surprised that when they evade taxes, they commit a crime. Ukrainians continue to live in the paradigm of a foreign state, when it is good to deceive the state. And then they just do not understand why they live so poorly.
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The photo, released on Dec. 21, 2016, by the press office of the National Bank of Ukraine, shows Ukrainian money hryvnia.