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<title>{{ _("GNU Taler") }} - {{ _("Governments") }}</title>
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<h1>{{ _("Advantages for Governments") }}</h1>
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<p>{{ _("Taler provides accountability to ensure business
accepting payments operate legally, while also
respecting civil liberties of citizens spending
digital cash. Taler is a commons, a payment system
based on open standards and free software. Taler
needs governments to set a financial framework and
to act as trusted regulators. Taler contributes to
digital sovereignty in the critial financial
infrastructure.") }}</p>
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<h2>{{ _("Taxable") }}</h2>
<p>{{ _("Taler was
built with the goal of fighting corruption and supporting taxation.
With Taler, the receiver of any form of payment is
easily identified by the government, and the merchant
can be compelled to provide the contract that was accepted
by the customer. Governments can use this data to
tax businesses and individuals based on their
income, making tax evasion and black markets less
viable.") }}</p>
<p>{{ _("Thus, despite offering anonymity for citizens
spending digital cash to buy goods and services,
Taler also ensures that the state can observe
incoming funds. This can be used to ensure
businesses engage only in legal activities, and do
not evade income tax, sales tax or value-added tax.
However, this observational capability does not
extend to the immediate personal domain. In
particular, sharing access to funds within a family
or synchronizing wallets across multiple devices is not
subject to monitoring.") }}</p> </div>
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<h2>{{ _("Secure") }}</h2>
<p>{{ _("Taler's payments are cryptographically
secured. Thus, customers, merchants and the
exchange can mathematically demonstrate their
lawful behavior in court in case of
disputes. Financial damages are strictly limited,
improving economic security for individuals,
merchants, the exchange and the state.") }}
<p>{{ _("By design, the Taler payment service provider is
subject to financial regulation. Financial
regulation and regular audits are critical to
establish trust. In particular, the Taler design
mandates the existence of an independent auditor
who checks cryptographic proofs that accumulate at
the payment service provider to ensure that the
escrow account is managed honestly. This ensures
that the payment service provider does not threaten
the economy due to fraud.") }}</p> </div> </div>
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_("Libre") }}</h2>
<p>{{ _("Taler is free software implementing an open
protocol standard. Thus, Taler will enable
competition and avoid the monopolization of payment
systems that threatens global political and
financial stability today.") }}</p>
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<h2>{{ _("Efficient") }}</h2>
<p>{{ _("Taler has an efficient design. Unlike
timeline-based payment systems, such as Bitcoin,
Taler will not threaten the availability of
national electric grids or (significantly)
contribute to environmental pollution.") }}</p>
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<h2 id="overview">{{ _("Taler as seen by governments") }}</h2>
<p>{{ _("Governments can observe traditional wire transfers
entering and leaving the Taler system, and require
merchants and exchange operators to provide certain
information during financial audits. Exchange
operators are expected to be permanently checked by
auditors, while merchants may be required to reveal
information during regular tax audits. Information
available to the government includes: ") }}</p>
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<li>{{ _("From the banking system: The total amount of
digital currency obtained by a customer. The
government could impose limits on how many
digital coins a customer may withdraw within a
given timeframe.") }}</li>
<li>{{ _("From the banking system: The total amount of
income received by any merchant via the Taler
system.") }}</li>
<li>{{ _("From auditing the exchange: The amounts of
digital coins legitimately withdrawn by
customers from the exchange, the value of
non-redeemed digital coins in customer's
wallets, the value and corresponding wire
details of deposit operations performed by
merchants with the exchange, and the income of
the exchange from transaction fees.") }}</li>
<li>{{ _("From auditing merchants: For each deposit
operation, the exact details of the underlying
contract that was signed between customer and
merchant. However, this information would
typically not include the identity of the
customer. Note that while the customer can
decide to prove that it was his transaction
(i.e. in court when suing the merchant if the
merchant failed to deliver on the contract),
merchant, exchange and government cannot find
out the customer's identity from the information
that Taler collects.") }}</li>
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