Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Pity the Swedish tax collectors.
Tax auditors can never rest...
Sweden's tax authorities are seeking the bare facts about webcam strippers' income, estimating that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law.
The search involves tax officials examining websites that feature Swedish strippers, in an effort to identify them and chase them for tax returns...
Project leader Dag Hardyson said 200 Swedish strippers had been investigated so far....
"They are young girls, we can see from the photos..." said Mr Hardyson, head of the tax authority's national project on internet trade...
Mr Hardyson told BBC News that the strippers could be liable to pay about half of their earnings in tax. Striptease via webcam is quite legal in Sweden, unlike prostitution, he added...Web search tools like spiders had failed to detect the Swedish strippers.
"When we investigated the sites manually it worked better," he added. [BBC]
