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Coming from Sweden and being used to public tax records I was nevertheless a bit surprised at the transparency in Norway when anyone could look up anyone online
by Zitrax 10y ago
Coming from Sweden and being used to public tax records I was nevertheless a bit surprised at the transparency in Norway when anyone could look up anyone online anonymously. It made it extremely simple to for example create list of everyone at work or on your street (or use the data for any purpose). They later changed it in 2011 (?) such that the other person will get notified about who looked him/her up. I don't know if any other Nordic country went as far as Norway did during those years ?
There was an estimate that Norwegians spent around 250.000 work hours per year looking up each other in the tax databases.
There were also mobile apps being made when the databases were public that could for example show the richest people nearby.
- mongol 10y agoIt was the same in Sweden when Ratsit first opened. Around 2007 or so. And you can still do it for a charge, but the subject will be notified.
- digi_owl 10y agoIt used to be that each year the reported income and paid tax was printed and placed in a public location (local post office etc). Then some braniac thought they could save some money by just putting it all online. End result was that scrapers were set up etc.