1.   It can be hidden from the tax man, laundered to disguise its source and passed under the table in bribes.

2.   Tax men have a lot to answer for.

3.   They would go straight to his agent, who would deduct his commission and the rest went to pay the tax man.

4.   The tax man will get a large slice leaving the rest for contractors to pay for administration and potentially massive profits.

5.   And it made money laundering an offense, presumably so the tax man can get his piece.

6.   Anything they can do to foil the tax man, they do.

7.   Besides being a bad deal for the federal tax man, the mining law has also had undesirable effects on the landscape.

8.   Black money is the cash Indians hide from the tax man.

9.   Besides, Berlusconi is under investigation for crimes that are not mere peccadillos committed in the face of red tape and nitpicking tax men.