Friday, October 23, 2009
Norway Tax Returns Go Public
In a move that should prove highly controversial to implement elsewhere, tax authorities in Norway have made public a tax list showing the annual income and overall wealth of almost every taxpayer. For Christine Ingebritsen, a professor at the University of Washington, it reflects a typical Scandinavian custom of egalitarianism.
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That will allow them to raise their already high game even higher by focusing on things that really matter.
They are playing in another league altogether. Transparency is applied to both income and expenditure by the State. We can only watch with envy. Before even starting to think about transparency in income declaration we should insist on a more Open Government where each and every expenditure is visible and accounted for. Is it too much asking for a country of 1.2 million population?
True, they are playing in another league, but should we continue with the self-indulgence of outclassing say Haiti or Sierra Leone?
That said, I wonder whether, in terms of accountability and transparency,we are declining or progressing? Any surmise?
Declining for sure. For example Sithanen has yet to offer us an explanation as to how the STC lost Rs3 billion.
Indeed. But STC is one of the many other wealth drainers(http://tchombo.blogspot.com/2008/12/wealth-drainers.html) ripping off Dodoland since its "independence".
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