Switch From Being Catholic to Cofe? It'd Be Like Swopping My Old Gaspers for Silk Cut Mild

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OVER the years I've occasionally been asked by colleagues to fill in blank taxi receipts and sign them with a false name so that they can claim the money as business expenses. Even though this might have been for a legitimate work journey, it has always thrown me into paroxysms of moral torment.

I recognise that it's terribly wrong - not to mention a serious criminal offence - to collude in a fraud. But then a part of me thinks it would be a worse sin if I refused to cooperate.

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Switch From Being Catholic to Cofe? It'd Be Like Swopping My Old Gaspers for Silk Cut Mild

Not only would it make me insufferably holier-than-thou. It would also be gratuitously offensive to my (mostly honest) colleagues, suggesting I didn't believe them when they said they'd spent, say, Pounds 8.60 on a cab to the House of Commons.

After all, taxi drivers frequently dish out blank receipts with a knowing wink, thinking they...

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