Duty-expensive

Duty-expensive: adjective. While duty-free shops grant their customers an exemption from paying value added tax, duty-expensive shops are required by law to do the opposite, having to make the value added tax higher than it usually would be. Usually, ordering a shop to be duty-expensive is a sign of political machination aimed at destabilising a businessperson's position in the market. However, the difficulty of implementing such measures means that most corrupt politicians will simply repeatedly order police investigations of a firm, leading to its bankrupcy as such investigations often entail closing the firm down for an indefinite length of time.

Note: the writers of this blog are not pointing any fingers, but, as is common in the Philippines, indicate with their lips to certain maxisters that have sunk their roots in Czech politics.