- Business crimes are often easy to detect.
- White-collar crimes include only criminal acts committed by professional people during their holidays.
- Business crimes involve upright, law-abiding citizens.
- Embezzlement occurs when a person illegally appropriates property entrusted to him or her.
- Larceny is the wrongful taking of another’s property.
- Embezzlement doesn’t usually carry greater penalties than larceny.
- Bribery of private person is not a crime.
Task 5. Find the terms to the definitions in the box below:
- when someone secretly steals money from the organization they work for, it is ….
- when someone wrongfully appropriates property entreated to him, it is ….
- dishonestly giving money to someone in order to persuade him to do something that will help to you is ….
- people who respect and obey the law are ….
- a situation where someone gets money by deceiving someone else is ….
- the practice of getting money from someone or making him or her do what you want by threatening is ….
Blackmail, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, white-collar crime, law-abiding.
III. DISCUSSION.
Share your view with your group mates
1. Corruption exists and probably always will.
2. Is it possible to do anything to stop computer crime?
3. White-collar crime is the crime where women seem to be flocking. Why?
Tax Law.
I.VOCABULARY NOTES.
raising money | - сбор денег |
the tax revenues | - налоговые сборы |
to be levied | - облагаться |
to favour | - способствуют, благоприятствуют |
estates and trusts | - имущество и имущество по доверенности |
to shift | - перекладывать |
a share | - акции |
other assets | - другие активы |
heirs | - наследники |
a donor | - налогоплательщик |
productivity | - продуктивность |
equity | - равенство |
elasticity | - гибкость |
to generate the revenue | - собирать налоги с дохода |
expenses | - расходы, траты |
burden | - бремя |
a consumer | - потребитель |
decline | - упадок |
a recession | - спад |
to encourage | - поощрять, воодушевлять, поддерживать |
II. READING
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Text 1.