And the security forces, often under-funded, get things wrong: in February, the Philippines announced with great fanfare the detention of a terrorist holding no fewer than 104 passports, only to discover that he was a travel agentcollecting visas for Muslim pilgrims.
If they collect the taxes and fail to remit, they can go to jail because in collecting the sales tax they are an agent of the State and failure to remit is something like embezzlement.