Police Are Cracking Down On Criminally Cheap Pizza

https://twitter.com/AnneJutta/status/653443973223182336/

College kids, pizza rats and weed heads across Finland mourned the loss of discount pizza today when police cracked down on tax evasion in a peculiar way. According to Twitter handle @AnneJutta (which the Finish police have verified as real), Finns are now encouraged to report any establishment selling a pie for under six euros.

Translation: “Pizza is just an example. The campaign targeted all Finnish. The gray economy hurts all of us.”

In the graph above the police have described how much a whole pizza should cost using a clever pie chart (I’m with you Poliisi, good one). One third of pizza-making costs cover ingredients, slightly more than a third (36.5 percent) cover wages, 11.5 percent is spent on the value-added tax (VAT), 9.6 percent goes to rents, and the remaining 8 percent cover miscellaneous fees. With those numbers the cops are saying anyone dealing under six euro pies are up to no good.

Luckily the stipulations don’t crack down on temporary promotions, but Finns have still taken to Twitter to fire back at the hilarious accusations toward the beloved cheap, late-night meals. Unfortunately, it’s in Finnish, so…

 

*This article was changed to reflect an error. Originally, the article referred to “slices” when it actually meant “pies.”*

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