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For people who are skeptical this sort of transparency could ever work, consider that in Norway (also Finland and to a lesser extent Sweden) tax returns are com
by gizmo 13y ago
For people who are skeptical this sort of transparency could ever work, consider that in Norway (also Finland and to a lesser extent Sweden) tax returns are completely open to the public:
http://skattelister.no/ http://skattelister.no/
So you can quickly look up what somebody's income and net worth are and the public at large are in favor of it.
- pmelendez 13y agoI don't know how is in those countries here in Canada taxes are a combination of several factors, and you can be in the same salary range that somebody else and still be paying a significant different amount.
- gizmo 13y agoIncome, tax, and net worth are all public in Norway, so that issue doesn't exist.
- poopsintub 13y agoThe public at large? The country only has 5 million citizens and a GDP of 250 billion dollars. Scale it by 60 and I would be interested how it works out, because that would be the size of the U.S.