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It plays out as follows: | It plays out as follows: | ||
A [[salesperson]] approaches you with what is, on its face, a narrow and uncontroversial question — one to which, in your direct recollection, the salesperson already knows the answer. This is a sure sign {{sex|she}} is indulging in | A [[salesperson]] approaches you with what is, on its face, a narrow and uncontroversial question — one to which, in your direct recollection, the salesperson already knows the answer. This is a sure sign {{sex|she}} is indulging in a kind of [[compliance arbitrage]] — probably of the odious kind where, | ||
while {{sex|she}} does present the whole picture to the internal control functions after a fashion — she does so in several<ref>''Legally'' several that is, in the sense of “not joint”.</ref> instalments, each so thinly sliced as to present the controller in question only with those facts the [[salesperson]] considers germane to the specific risk decision (and helpful to her cause). | |||
As a seasoned compliance professional, you adopt the standard approach: [[Limp celery|''ostensible'' approval]], hedged around with caveats deep enough for you to jump into and hide in later on, should shots ring out in the aftermath. | As a seasoned [[compliance professional]], you adopt the standard approach: [[Limp celery|''ostensible'' approval]], hedged around with caveats deep enough for you to jump into and hide in later on, should shots ring out in the aftermath. | ||
:“''I [[would be]] [[inclined]] to be [[okay with this]], [[subject to]] you confirming the | :“''I [[would be]] [[inclined]] to be [[okay with this]], [[subject to]] you confirming the withholding position with {{tag|Tax}},''” you say, happy that you have passed the tangled skein off your desk. | ||
Of course, the tangled skein has not magically winked out of existence: it has simply ascended from your desk, hovered momentarily and landed with a thud on some one else’s. This poor blighter, a tax lawyer, will have just the same aspiration as you: to pass the sausage on as efficiently as possible. To fulfill it, he will take exactly the same approach you did: | Of course, the tangled skein has not magically winked out of existence: it has simply ascended from your desk, hovered momentarily and landed with a thud on some one else’s. This poor blighter, a tax lawyer, will have just the same aspiration as you: to pass the sausage on as efficiently as possible. To fulfill it, he will take exactly the same approach you did: | ||