Two South Korean sisters were arrested by Japan for evading inheritence taxes on $58 million. The sisters hid the cash in shoe boxes in a shed. It is unclear in this AFP article what claim Japan would have on South Korean nationals but my guess is that there father was a Japanese national or that maybe somehow the sisters were at one time citizens of Japan.
The real issue that this story reminds us of is the issue of Death Taxes.
There are probably quite a few people around the world that wonder how a government can tax a person all of his life on income and property and capital gains and things purchased (sales tax) and then when that person dies and manages the feat of actually leaving some savings to his family; tax the money that he gives to his family. It is something to think about.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080311/od_afp/japancrimetaxoffbeat;_ylt=Ai1GDQHjsb_RHl1c71g0EwIDW7oF
