Tax collectors here were cut to the quick by the realization that they were not receiving a fair slice of the profits made by Israel’s mohels (ritual circumcisors). They reacted sharply upon learning that, with only 94 of the 224 licensed circumcisors bothering to file returns for 1984, they had only scratched the surface of the mohels’ income. The 130 mohels who did not pay taxes, Israel television reported, will now be subjected to acute audits and their incomes most probably slashed. The circumcisors are now aware that this time round they will not be able to circumvent their civic duty.
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