However, quite a number of the child companies stays "closed" like hibernation or is operated only for illegal purposes such as debt evasion.

但是，很多子孙公司处于“歇业”的休眠状态，或者单纯为了“逃债”等非法目的而使用。

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American society, and severely affected to the international famous accounting pany failed to find Enron hide a lot of debt and tax evasion behavior, and destroy the Enron audit material.

作为安然公司审计单位的安达信公司因长期未能发现安然公司隐瞒大量的债务计逃税行为，并销毁有关安然公司的审计材料，也受到人们的广泛质疑。

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Correspondents say the scandal is embarrassing for the French Socialist government which has made fighting tax evasion a priority, as it tries to cut public debt.

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Rampant tax evasion has played and continues to play a significant role in the Greek debt crisis, although it does appear that in 2010 the country is going after tax cheats as never before.

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True, Italian governments have proved adept over the years at finding ways to tap the country's substantial wealth to service its eye-popping levels of sovereign debt, but this has been largely achieved by introducing ever higher and more complex taxes that only encourage tax evasion while simultaneously sucking the life out of the economy.

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