Teeth to tax collection
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The Doberman dog was the creation of a tax collector in Germany Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann. He needed a protection dog to guard him in any situation that might arise in his tax collection duties. He set out to breed a new type of dog that, in his opinion, would be the perfect combination of strength, loyalty, intelligence, and ferocity. He put real teeth into the tax collection process.
Not many years ago, there was a high-profile Commissioner of Central Excise who had four Doberman dogs that tailed him wherever he went emulating the great German tax collector and sure enough, he was a terror in the field!