Tax evasion

Many companies in various ways seek to avoid taxes or reduce them to a minimum. To do this, use the black / double bookkeeping and other illegal methods. However, one Norwegian entrepreneurial figure found an elegant and ingenious move to pay taxes to 0. In 1998, he registered an enterprise that he named ; UPDATE TAXRATE SET RATE = 0 WHERE NAME = EDVIN SYSE .


There is a corresponding entry in the register of enterprises in Norway.

It turns out this happens not only in comics, such as in one of the most famous from xkcd: