Oh the woes of those poor, hunted billionares...

[HoreTore]

It was misunderstood, my apologies. I find it hard to believe that in a socialist country he did not pay higher taxes than that. Norway must either have a plateau taxing system (and the max is ten million), which i doubt or there is some shady accounting going on (but that is a little too shady...), or the information on the website is wrong (not that i am doubting your sources just brainstorming.) Because like it or not socialist countries are usually going to have pretty high taxes for the social spending, i mean that is unavoidable.

1. The "source" is definitely not wrong. The source is the official tax lists from the Norwegian government(Norway being the only country I know where such info is public), and they are accurate. Very accurate.
2. There is no maximum amount for taxes, this guy, for example, paid 150 million in taxes.
3. Rich people don't pay taxes, that's a well-known fact. The situation is the same in every country. Money is hidden away in shady countries, companies and hidden bank accounts, income is redefined as something else, every deduction is used to the max, etc etc. See his income for 2006, for example, it's "0". You think he was unemployed that year?

The ones paying the taxes keeping the country going are the regular people, meaning people from the working class to those making a couple of millions a year. Those making more than that hire an army of accountants to make their money disappear. But of course there are exceptions to that.