1900-year-old Roman papyrus details elaborate tax evasion scheme
A 1900-year-old papyrus found in the Judean desert turns out to be a document written by a prosecutor detailing a complex tax evasion scheme of the two men on trial.
"The Romans did not joke about tax evasions. They saw this, essentially, as a crime against the state," Dolganov said. The punishment could include significant fines, temporary or permanent exile, or hard labour in mines or stone quarries — with the latter essentially a death sentence, she explained.
Tax evasion is theft
Talk about a cold case, eh?
TLDR: it showed that legal training was robust and even in the provinces a Roman lawyer was competent. The tax evasion involved the enslaved being freed? And you don’t fuck with Roman tax collectors.
Is it signed by Donaldus Trumpei ?