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ALL-OUT EFFORT TO CRACK CAR THEFT AND SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES

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POLICE IN AN ALL-OUT EFFORT AGAINST VEHICLE THEFT AND SMUGGLING RECOVERED IN THE PAST THREE DAYS ACTIVITIES HAS PAID OFF WITH 11 CARS IN A SERIES OF OPERATIONS.

MORE IN A TERRITORY-WIDE OPERATION CONDUCTED OVER THE WEEKEND,

A TOTAL OF 800 THAN 2,000 POLICE OFFICERS WERE IMVOLVED IN RAIDING

PUBLIC AREAS, VACANT LOTS, DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, INCLUDING GARAGES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CAR PARKS AND CONTAINER SITES.

SUSPECTED TO BE WERE ARRESTED, WHILE OF THE 3,000

AMONG THE 3,400 PEOPLE QUESTIONED, 24 OF THEM, IN CONNECTION WITH VEHICLE SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES, 17 PERSONS WERE TAKEN IN FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS. VEHICLES CHECKED, POLICE FOUND FOUR MISSING VEHICLES.

BUREAU OFFICERS

CAUGHT 10

FEMALE,

THEY RED-HANDED CAR AND TWO LEFT-HAND VEHICLES

ALSO

WHEN

WERE

ONTO

SERIOUS CRIME ORGANISED

MALES AND ONE SUSPECTS, NINE

STOLEN LOADING A ALLEGEDLY SPEEDBOATS IN KWAI CHUNG LAST SATURDAY.

ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME, REGIONAL CRIME UNIT OFFICERS FROM

THE

NEW TERRITORIES

THREE RECOVERED

GODOWN IN SO KWUN WAT, TUEN MUN.

MISSING VEHICLES TWENTY PEOPLE

IN A CONTAINER WERE TAKEN IN

FOR

ENQUIRIES.

MEANWHILE,

TWO 35-YEAR-OLD

(NOVEMBER 26) AT HANG HAU, SAI KUNG

MEN FOR

WERE

ARRESTED

YESTERDAY

ALLEGEDLY SMUGGLING A NEW

JEEP.

POLICE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE CASES ARE CONTINUING.

30,000 COUPLES PAY LESS TAX BY JOINT ASSESSMENT

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NOW,

REVENUE DEPARTMENT (IRD) HAD. UP UNTIL THE INLAND

COUPLES MARRIED

WHO WOULD

FROM BENEFIT IDENTIFIED SOME 30,000 REDUCED TAX LIABILITY BY ELECTING TO BE JOINTLY ASSESSED.

AN IRD SPOKESMAN SAID AN ADVICE, WHICH ALSO SPECIFIED SAVING, HAD BEEN ISSUED IN EVERY CASE SO FAR IDENTIFIED.

FOR A

THE

BENEFIT COUPLE TO RECEIVE LIABILITY, THEY MUST SIGN THE "ELECTION" AT THE AND RETURN IT TO THE INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT.

THE TAX

OF THE REDUCED TAX FOOT OF THE ADVICE

THE SPOKESMAN REMINDED ALL TAXPAYERS THAT THE DEPARTMENT

A JOINT NOT PASS ON THE BENEFIT OF THE TAX SAVINGS UNDER UNTIL THE SIGNED ELECTION HAD BEEN RECEIVED.

COULD ASSESSMENT

/HE ADDED

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