This article has focused on a tax audit process wherein a
number of used car dealings are translated into an assessment
of taxable income that is used by a tax inspector to
regulate a taxpayer’s personal finances. The latter is represented
by the case of John whom experiences the discipline
and power of the tax administration. The analysis emphasises
that although knowledge about some specific dealings
are gained, this gain in vision is achieved at the cost
of losing sight of other activities. In this way, the study
has shown that the terms of the project—i.e., the assumption
that fraud appears via the Inverted Invoices—hinder
seeing perhaps more frequent and more severe tax fraud.
As a consequence of this narrowing of vision,