Privacy has always, and in every modern democracy, been subject to court orders to produce documents. There is nothing horrifying about transparency in finance.

Privacy has always, and in every modern democracy, been subject to court orders to produce documents. There is nothing horrifying about transparency in finance. Property taxes have a role to play, for example in reducing the use of otherwise unused property to launder money. But, without other regulation, property taxes would just be a kind of sham, leaving every other avenue for money laundering wide open.