Perhaps my concern with strange taxes can best beillustrated by highlighting what I think is the ultimate in using taxes as a way to target a government desired outcome.
The book, to be sold by Livraria Cultura all over Brazil, is illustratedwith beautiful pictures taken by photographer Niven Franci as well as schematic drawings that faithfully register the memory of this piece of Brazilian historical and cultural heritage.
Instead of perfectly preserved beef, they found putrid meat so rotten that the stone floors needed to be coated with chloride of lime to mask the stench, according to an account in the Illustrated London News.