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{% extends "common/base.j2" %}
{% block body_content %}

<div class="jumbotron">
  <div class="container text-center">
  <h1>{{ _("Advantages for Governments") }}</h1>
    <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>
  </div>
</div>

<div class="container">

<!-- Example row of columns -->
<div class="row">
  <div class="col-lg-6">
    <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>

  <div class="col-lg-6">
    <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>
             <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-6"> <h2>{{
             _("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>


  </div>
  <div class="col-lg-6">
    <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>

  </div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-12">
  <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>
  
  <p>
    <img src="{{ url('images/government.svg') }}" alt="government perspective" style="float: right; margin: 50px 5px 5px 5px;" width="50%">
    </p><ul>
    
      <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>

    </ul>
  <p></p>
</div>
</div>

{% endblock body_content %}