French tax office sucks in money .  PARIS 1996-08-28  Workers fixing the ceiling of a tax office in Paris found a dozen seven-year-old cheques for a total of six million francs ( $ 1.2 million ) in a ventilation pipe , the weekly [START_ENT] Le Canard Enchaine [END_ENT] said on Wednesday .  A Finance Ministry official explained that the cheques for corporate tax payments had been sucked into the ventilation system , the weekly reported .  The companies had been contacted at the time and had not been fined for failing to pay , the official said .
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