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Norway is one
by hasperdi 3y ago
Norway is one
- ta1243 3y agoNorway is the only one. And you can't look up salary, just their total income, which could include say renting out a vacation home or whatever.
- edpichler 3y agoThe only one? Source?
- irrational 3y agoI thought Sweden did the same thing?
- varjag 3y agoTotal taxable income, which depending on your family/health/debt situation can be different from the same base income.
- postexitus 3y agoFinland is another.
- squarefoot 3y agoIncidentally, Norway appears among the countries with the lowest perception of corruption in the world: #4 among 180 countries (0). It would be interesting to look if there is any correlation with other countries where income records are publicly available. 0: https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-rank https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-rank
- c0pium 3y agoAll* US government salaries are public record. If you know your neighbors name and department/agency, there’s a good chance you can look them up.
- nine_k 3y agoSalaries are not the entire income. Corruption is usually some income in addition to a salary, but it may still be reflected in the tax record (that is, it's usually some service, board position, etc, not a suitcase full if cash). Thus public tax records give a better transparency picture than salary records.
- bergkvist 3y agoBut you can't look it up anonymously. You have to authenticate with your national ID number, and the person will be notified about who looked up their income.
- orthoxerox 3y agoCan you pay someone to look up this data for you?
- dagw 3y agoThe way they get around this in Sweden at least is that you pay a company to do the look up for you and then no one knows who looked up what or why.