>>11922675"Works of art" were pinholed by the rulers to have some substantial tax exempt status, and so in the middle of the night, a wealthy man was sleeping with his lover, another up and coming wealthy man, and in the afterglow of romance, the greater wanted to give a gift and not pay tax. There he hatched a plan, I'll find an artist who produces works of art for $5 each, and create a market where I buoy the value of his work at 45 million dollars per artwork. This market is created and now this artist is making his art and is asked for a new bold 55 million dollar piece. So he stands upon a ladder and pees and poops onto a canvas and smears it around and covers it in glass. The second man in this story recieves a gift of said 55 million dollar piece, and doesn't have to pay taxes on that income. The man then sells the work to a 4th man not mentioned, and voila, you have effectively money laundered money stolen from one part of the republic and gifted it to another without losing 40% of it to transaction fees.
You wouldn't understand because your nation prosecutes such things much more aggressively.
