Witchcraft declared legal profession in Romania

[JackLuis]

As expected it was to allow the taxes to be collected.

Witchcraft declared legal profession in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania has changed its labor laws to officially recognize witchcraft as a profession, prompting one self-described witch to threaten retaliation.

The move, which went into effect Saturday, is part of the government's drive to crack down on widespread tax evasion in a country that is in recession.

 

[oggbashan]

A spell involving black pepper and yeast?

She is really trying hard, isn't she?

What happened to eye of newt and toe of frog, or other exotic and expensive ingredients?

Black pepper and yeast sounds more like Jamie Oliver.

Og

 

[Bebeslut]

What, ogg, don't be so Brit-centric with this eye of newt and toe of frog stuff!

A spell involving black pepper and yeast?

She is really trying hard, isn't she?

What happened to eye of newt and toe of frog, or other exotic and expensive ingredients?

Black pepper and yeast sounds more like Jamie Oliver.

Og

 

[Handley_Page]

Well, Ogg's right. She's not trying very hard.
I have to wonder, though, what the USA witch would use in the light of newts being protected. . . A Python's eye does not have the same cache' somehow.

 

[DarthJulius]

Sounds more like she going to make bread.

Here I thought bread was made by bakers, not witches.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I have to wonder why these were not already considered occupations or professions:

In addition to witches, astrologists, embalmers, valets and driving instructors are now considered by labor law to be working real jobs, making it harder for them to avoid income tax.

For months the measure had been debated, protested by witches and mocked by the media.

On Saturday, a witch called Bratara told Realitate.net, the website of a top TV station, that she plans to cast a spell using black pepper and yeast to create discord in the government.

I wonder if she or somebody like her has already cast that spell on the US government.

When they refer to a "witch," I suppose they are not talking about a Wiccan. Instead, it would be a person, usually an old woman, to whom somebody might go to have a spell cast or buy a voodoo doll or a love potion or something of that sort. If there is a charge for such services or products, I would expect those charges to represent taxable income already.

 

[mynameisben]

It seems like a fair law to me. If they truly are witches, then they should be able to skirt the taxman by turning him into a frog, or whatever it is that fashionable witches do these days. If they are not true witches, then their incomes should be taxable, just as it is for the rest of us mortals.

 

[OzoneRed]

I wonder what Charlie Weasley and the dragonkeepers at the Romanian Dragon Preserve will think of this.