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3<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ _('en') }}">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8"/>
    <title>{{ _("GNU Taler") }} - {{ _("Governments") }}</title>
    <meta name="description" content=""/>
    {% include "common/header.j2.inc" %}
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      {% include "common/navigation.j2.inc" %}
      <!-- Jumbotron -->
      <div class="jumbotron">
        <h1>{{ _("Advantages for Governments") }}</h1>
        <!-- p><a class="btn btn-lg btn-success" href="#" role="button">Get started today</a></p -->
	<div class="col-lg-12">

          <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>

      <!-- 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>
      {% include "common/footer.j2.inc" %}
    </div> <!-- /container -->
  </body>
</html>