2015年ESL之商务英语 15 Hiding Money Offshore
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：2015年ESL之商务英语
Sabrina: Wait! Don’t deposit that money into our regular bank account. I’ll take care of it.
Luis: Okay, but why?
Sabrina: I’ve come up with a way for us to avoid paying so much in taxes each year. I’ve opened an offshore account in the Crook 2 Islands. We can funnel 3 our money into that account and it’ll be untraceable.
Luis: But that’s tax evasion 4.
Sabrina: The banks in the Crook Islands have ways of covering up the paper trail so no one will be the wiser.
Luis: That doesn’t make it legal.
Sabrina: They haven’t caught us yet.
Luis: You mean you’ve already started putting money into that account?
Sabrina: I’ve been depositing money into it for nearly a year.
Luis: And when were you going to tell me?
Sabrina: I’m telling you now. Trust me. These tax havens 5 are very popular with the rich. We’re just taking a page from their book on how to save money.
Luis: We’re going to get caught. We should come clean now.
Sabrina: That’s why I didn’t tell you before! I knew you’d make a fuss about it.
Luis: And you were right. We need to quietly close the account and bring the money back.
Sabrina: Then we’ll have to pay taxes on it and maybe even a penalty, more than we would’ve had to pay in taxes originally.
Luis: Right and that’s called poetic 6 justice.
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
- He demanded an apology from me for calling him a crook.我骂他骗子，他要我向他认错。
- She was cradling a small parcel in the crook of her elbow.她用手臂挎着一个小包裹。
- He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
- I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。
- The movie star is in prison for tax evasion.那位影星因为逃税而坐牢。
- The act was passed as a safeguard against tax evasion.这项法案旨在防止逃税行为。