Tax Collectors Ogle Strippers
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 12, 2009 04:08 JST
- Tags: AV, Bizarre, Business, Money, Pornography, Prostitution, Sweden, Taxes
Sweden’s tax collectors have added a new task to their list of official duties: looking at online strippers, strictly in order to assess their taxable assets, of course.
Under Swedish law, some half the money earned by women who strip via webcams is liable be claimed by the government as taxes. While prostitution is illegal, online stripping is a legal and taxable business activity.
“They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules,” said Dag Hardyson, head of the tax authority’s national project on Internet trade.
Because online cam websites are not easily searched by automated means, the government has been assigning its staff to look at each website manually.
Some 200 strippers have been so far investigated with an additional 300 still requiring further painstaking attention.
Hardyson stressed that the work is often beset with difficulty, citing problems finding the correct contact information: “We have to visit the companies behind the websites to get the information, then we have to work with the electronic wallets where the money is deposited.”
Unsurprisingly, personal information about the strippers themselves is a closely guarded secret, often to discourage would be suitors, but in this case providing a logistical foil for civil servants.
When asked about his feelings about appropriating the monies earned by the women, Hardyson replied: “I don’t think they have any costs really – almost 100% of what they earn is pocketed. Many have regular work and this is extra income.”
The hard working tax authority is set to provide the government with an estimated $4.8 million in additional tax revenues.
Sweden has some of the highest taxes in the world, and a government ever keen to spend them, so ensuring this crushing burden breaks the back of all equally is surely a priority.
Via the BBC.
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hohohoho, thank goodness for stickam cam whores.
How are you so good at finding relevant pictures?
hahah so true ...
it's his (Artefact's) special ability.
I don't know if you're doing this on purpose or not, but I'm sure I saw Jin as the author there... Either that or Artefact himself personally handpicked all the headline images for each article?
Oh ya I just noticed the author.
Even so, the pix are always so related.
Artefact = master of google
Artefact is indeed the master at finding related pictures. My abilities in this however are steadily improving. I decided on this one.
Seriously. Great job there. Half my article ideas are thwarted by non-availability of suitable images (and a third by corrupted back-ups ...).
Artefact I choose YOU!
Doesn't sankaku have its own growing image Channel, specifically one that has image tags?
I kinda figured the posters would go there first and just search for tags related to the headline.
Users find and tag/organize pics, bloggers harvest for headline shots.
Buuuut it probably isn't quite so simple...
This one, for instance, is a little too fitting for such a simple tactic.
i always laugh a little after reading the title and seeing the pic...
I think I know how, but it will have to cost you something. =)
Perhaps this is a good time to abandon my hikikomori lifestyle and look for a job at Skatteverket...
Hahahaha, Lycka till ;-)
(good luck!)
This is why I don't like tax-hungry welfare states...
Would you mind elaborating on why this makes you dislike taxes? Why should their income not be taxed?
I like to keep the money I earn and not be dependant on the whims of bureaucrats?
better benafits better heath and better inferstuctre from all that ernd tax = a genrly better life than what you normaly get?
What the government provides is usually s**t. And by taking my tax money, denies my ability to get something better.
Sweden got some of the best health care in the world, free school and alot more benefits.
I'd gladly pay taxes for this.
None of these things are free, they are just paid for without any consumer choice.
This. In this instance and anytime "free" government anything pops up.
I don't really see how the scam that is known as "insurance" is better... and it's not like you can't afford other things.
at least they don't suck up your money for nothing :>
"They are young girls, we can see from the photos."
I want this guy's job!
If these webcam companies are in Sweden, why don't they just have them collect the taxes for the tax collectors?
Or (more liekly) the webcam companies are elsewhere and just some of thewomen are in sweden. Which makes a lot of women to watch to find the few swedes in the sea of naked women.
I hate MY job now. :(
Never thought working for the state could be that entertaining..
Nice if your chief passes by.. sees you watching porn and goes "Good job, if only the of the staff was this motivated".
Holy Shit, you're absolutely right.
But I can't type worth shit :(
*"Good job, if only the rest of the staff was this motivated"
Nah, that's frankly absurd. You're CC. =/
Is now the time to put "lurking 4chan" into my CV?
but how could an Anon prove he lured 4chan xD?
signing his CV anonymous
Yeah, great job. This guy probably sings karaoke with the Japanese porn censor after work.
Yeah, sin tax and obscenity rules are pretty stupid.
Buuuut just think of all the creative work-arounds our charmingly perverted artists have invented specifically because they were forced to work inside such constraints.
There's strategic band-aid placement, the use of other docking ports (sometimes particularly creative) that don't require censorship, tentacles don't require mosaics, etc.
I mean, would /d even EXIST without these kind of thinking-outside-the-box innovations?
What's the source of this nice headline picture :] ?? Looks like CG from some game...
oh dear, what will they think of next!
Not surprised. The tax collectors here in Sweden are greedy as hell. But can't blame them on this one, since the strippers can earn up to nearly 200.000kr, about $24.000 or 18.000€ extra a year for doing this.
Sverige!
Sweden!
You mean Magic Kingdom of Sweden.
Pretty soon they'll be taxing you for every night you copulate. *shakes head*
Wife: Let fuck tonight, honey <3
Husband: Sorry, business been bad lately, sex can wait.
it's been done before... at least in a Monty Python sketch.
FBI=Federal Breast Inspector?
naw, its Female Body Inspector.
"“They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules,” said Dag Hardyson, head of the tax authority’s national project on Internet trade."
This guy is a hero
now ain't that nice, "monitor" hot strippers and collect tax from them as well~
Excellent, story location as the FIRST word, much better, keep up the proper news reporting.
excuses, excuses, pervy tax collectors