It’s very frustrating, isn’t it, you and I are held to account for all our deeds and misdeeds and made to pay our taxes. And then there are the diplomats across the world, neither paying taxes in the countries they are being posted to, nor often any other dues on the back of misdeeds, such as fines for traffic violations for example. What bugs an order loving and mostly disciplined Swiss like myself is that between 2014 and 2017 police in the Swiss canton of Geneva (home to the European headquarters of the United Nations and some 33 diplomatic missions) issued fines to diplomats for traffic violations to the tune of over 4 million Swiss Francs, of which only CHF 629’000 got paid.
But there’s worse: shoplifting, wife beating, rape, murder, human and drug trafficking are only some examples of charges which have been brought against people benefiting from diplomatic immunity – and all got off Scot-free.
Other than a representative of one country in an other, the Cambridge Dictionary also describes a diplomat as ‘a person who is skilled at dealing with difficult situations in a way that does not offend people’ …. well, I suspect all the above examples are then exceptions which confirm the rule.
And, just by the way, the expression getting off or being Scot free has nothing to do with Scotland but comes from the old English word ‘sceot’ meaning a tax. Hence people who didn’t have to pay taxes were sceot free.
In our day and age they would be called diplomats.
The grumpy older man 
Apparently got one here who only paid $750 one year, because he and his CPA minions were adrioly using tax laws. Then there are corporations who dodge taxes. Okay I guess, after all it’s them and their ilk who WROTE the tax laws. Only recourse in your case is to pass laws un-exempting diplocrats. So they get upset and pull their embassies? No loss. You work it out, let me know, might have some advantage here. No, wait. Elected officials are different. Similarly abusive, but different. Lemme know anyway.
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Un-exempting diplocrats? Good idea, but since their own teams abroad are equally exempt, this is unlikely to happen. Reassuring to know, that diplomats are taxed in their home, countries (well, the Swiss are anyway)
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