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As someone else noted, tax returns are public in Italy too, but you have to request them explicitly for a given person. Newspapers can and do publish analysis
by riffraff 5y ago
As someone else noted, tax returns are public in Italy too, but you have to request them explicitly for a given person.
Newspapers can and do publish analysis of tax returns by politicians, for example.
Some years ago the tax authority decided to actually publish everything online for ease of access and the country exploded, so the privacy authority told them not to do that.
- vidarh 5y agoThe last part is similar to what happened in Norway: For a couple of years it became a free-for-all, and then they put in place a login and notifies people if they get looked up. Doesn't stop newspapers from prying into politicians and well known people, but stops most of the casual prying into friends and family or potential hires.