(EE-392) 역외(로) 자금 숨기기 (Hiding Money Offshore)

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Sabrina: Wait! Don’t deposit that money into our regular bank account. I’ll take care of it.
* deposit = 예금[예치]하다/ bank account = (예금) 계좌

Luis: Okay, but why?

Sabrina: I’ve come up with a way for us to avoid paying so much in taxes each year. I’ve opened
an offshore account in the Crook Islands. We can funnel our money into that account and it’ll be untraceable.
* offshore account = (다른 통화로 예금할 수 있는) 해외에 있는 계좌/ funnel = 이동하다[이동시키다]/ untraceable = 추적할 수 없는 

Luis: But that’s tax evasion.
* tax evasion = 탈세

Sabrina: The banks in the Crook Islands have ways of covering up the paper trail so no one will be the wiser.
* cover up = (실수, 범행 등을) 숨기다[은폐하다]/ paper trail = (어떤 일의) 증거를 보여주는 일련의 문서들/ no one(nobody) will be the wiser = 아무도 모를 것이다

Luis: That doesn’t make it legal.

Sabrina: They haven’t caught us yet.

Luis: You mean you’ve already started putting money into that account?

Sabrina: I’ve been depositing money into it for nearly a year.

Luis: And when were you going to tell me?

Sabrina: I’m telling you now. Trust me. These tax havens are very popular with the rich.
We’re just taking a page from their book on how to save money.
* tax haven = 조세 피난처/ take a page from sb's book = ~의 선례를 따르다, 흉내내다, 모방하다

Luis: We’re going to get caught. We should come clean now.
* get caught = 잡히다, 포착되다/ come clean = (비밀로 하던 것을) 실토[자백]하다, 털어놓다

Sabrina: That’s why I didn’t tell you before! I knew you’d make a fuss about it.
* make a fuss (about/over ~) = (~에 대해) 소란을 피우다, 법석을 떨다

Luis: And you were right. We need to quietly close the account and bring the money back.

Sabrina: Then we’ll have to pay taxes on it and maybe even a penalty, more than we would’ve had to pay
in taxes originally.
* penalty = 벌금, 위약금; 처벌, 형벌

Luis: Right and that’s called poetic justice.
* poetic justice = 시적 정의(당연한 것으로 여겨지는 인과응보)

Hiding Money Offshore - WTS.mp3