Closing Businesses for Non-payment of Taxes

When customers leave a business police may ask if they received a receipt, indicating whether tax was paid, which benefits the government and, perhaps, society. If customers cannot produce a receipt, the police may enter the business and close it for a period of three days as a penalty for not charging the tax.  Some negative chatter says that mostly small businesses in high traffic public places are targeted and that large businesses or corporations may pay no taxes at all. This photo was taken outside a coffee shop just off the Plaza Principal where Lynn and I meet with several other people for a weekly English conversation group.