Mr Malema is also being investigated by state agencies on charges related to corruption and tax evasion.
For two decades, Berlusconi has been moving from trial to trial on charges that include corruption, tax fraud and sex-for-hire.
This time, too, Mr Bussi's rule has been controversial: he was suspended for 52 days last year in connection with allegations of corruption and tax evasion.
Studies also find that the ability to secure repayment is closely correlated with other measures of public-sector health, such as the control of corruption and tax compliance.
Giuseppe Orsi, the chairman and chief executive of Finmeccanica, was arrested last week, along with Bruno Spagnolini, the chief executive of AgustaWestland, on corruption and tax fraud charges.
The ebullient Mr Zuma, soon (it is said) to marry his sixth wife, is struggling to fend off a string of charges against him for corruption and tax evasion.
And among his highest aims is to reform France's antiquated, ill-run, corruption-prone tax system.
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These include added scrutiny from tax collectors, anti-corruption regulators and the public.
Tight currency controls, corruption and onerous tax regulations of many nations all but force their citizens to use informal channels, which invites mischief.
He started in the position in August, 2009, and his short tenure has been crowded with aggressive prosecutions of terrorism, Medicare fraud, illegal tax shelters, and public corruption.
The report also raises concerns over human trafficking, corruption, drug trafficking and tax crime in the sport.
But where backers see public financing as a knife into influence-peddling and corruption, opponents see a tax.
He was accused by the anti-corruption watchdog in January of tax irregularities and has been struggling to implement austerity measures to combat the country's financial crisis.
The landmark ruling is a defining moment for Chief Justice Kapadia, who has guided the court through a tumultuous time in India since taking over in May 2010, asserting the court's role to oversee investigations into corruption and large-scale tax evasion.
Opponents of this tax system claim that it is ripe for corruption because taxpayers have a major temptation to tweak their earnings to show negative income.
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Rent-controlled flats in New York or Santa Monica are available only to those with connections, creating corruption in the housing market and a border tax on newcomers who must pay higher rents.
It was a story of greed, corruption and yes, more than a little bit of tax fraud.
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And the office was slow to react to a string of alleged corruption scandals involving Byron Jerez, the chief of the tax office.
"It is very likely that none of the Suharto companies has ever paid more than 10% of its real tax obligations, " says Teten Masduki, an executive member of Indonesian Corruption Watch, an anti-graft non-governmental organization.
Lots of things are important when it comes to stock performance, and unfortunately a rather disturbingly high number of them are generally ignored by most investment analysts: religion (yes, religion), fertility, ethical corruption, moral corruption, property rights, soundness of currency, debt, tax progressivity, and size of government (which is another topic on which Mr. Mauldin has become a little muddled: more on this later).
One recent study, by an American academic, Shang-Jin Wei, calculated that an increase in the level of corruption from that of Singapore to that of, say, Mexico would be the equivalent of increasing the tax burden on foreign investors by over 20%.
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