How one can Evade Taxes in Historic Rome: A 1,900-Yr-Previous Papyrus Reveals an Historic Tax Evasion Scheme

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It was positive­ly not a coin­ci­dence that the New York Instances pub­lished its sto­ry on the tri­al of a cer­tain Gadalias and Sau­los this previous Mon­day, April 14th. The defen­dants, as their names sug­gest, didn’t stay in moder­ni­ty: the papyrus doc­u­ment­ing their authorized trou­bles dates to the reign of Hadri­an, round 130 AD.  These males had…