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Are you in the public sector is this a common issue in your industry? I ask because gifts and emoluments are common in my industry (manufacturing) with contracted clients in the private sector.

They make a big deal about it in pharma in trainings and whatnot, but then they don't really seem to enforce it. Adobe providing catered box seats to a big game? No problem. Random director spending too much on an internal team dinner, problem. It's pretty strange.

I'm in the private sector and I'm in no way allowed to accept gifts worth more than 10-15€ and even those are under strict premises to not allow it to be misconstrued as a bribe.

Not even working in any industry that is usually under scrutiny for bribes (finance, defence, pharma, etc.).

You sure this is about bribes and not about taxes?

Yeah this is a great cautionary point. A goodly chunk of my annual training is about bribes/inappropriate gifts.

One of our salesmen seems to like giving out small bags of nice chocolates.