The tax lists are out!!

**Proletariat** · 10-12-2007, 21:51

It's an utter invasion of privacy here, which is why US income tax is so galling.

**Ronin** · 10-12-2007, 22:52

over here they just publish the name of the people that don´t pay their taxes....the rest of the data is secret.

**TB666** · 10-13-2007, 00:47

The swedish tax list hasn't gone out yet.
Not that it matters since I pay tax in Denmark so I wouldn't show up anyway which might make my neighbours curious and suspect illegal activities

**CountArach** · 10-13-2007, 05:55

I don't believe we have that - though I could certainly see some great upsides to it.

**Husar** · 10-13-2007, 06:15

I don't think we have that as well and I think that is very, very good.

**KukriKhan** · 10-13-2007, 13:48

How interesting. I have questions:

Income: 11
Tax: 0
Fortune: 12 833

What is "fortune"?

Your link is to a search engine, I assume to the gov't tax database. I guess the first search term is "full name"; what is the second term ("Alder (Valgfritt)") ? City?

So, anyone armed with a full name & (city?) of a taxpayer can find out:

Reported Income
Income tax paid, and
Fortune (whatever that is)?

**Dîn-Heru** · 10-13-2007, 17:23

fortune is money in the bank so to speak. Savings either in a bank or in stocks, property and so on. A persons available capital basically.

alder? valgfritt means age optional. ie you do not need to know the age of the person you are searching, only his/her name.

And yes, if you know a persons name you will see how much their real income was, how much they paid in taxes and how much capital they have.

(IMO a totally pointless thing to do in this day and age. They used to publish the list before the internet, but then it was on paper, and you had to go to the tax office to read them i think. It only serves to spying on your neighbour, in a fit of envy or gloating depending on whether you made more money than them or not. And the potential that this will be used by kids to pick on others whose parents does not make that much money is also very much present. Basically they should not be published as it is simply used for petty thrills and does not serve any public purpose..)