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This doesn't sound like a fun story at all, actually. I honestly don't see what kind of good could come from disclosing tax returns publicly..
Social control. When everyone is watching, not properly declaring your income is much more risky.
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Because you have a second job / side business / investment income that is independent of your primary job.
Alright, but why is that a problem? Might be a cultural difference thing that i'm not seeing. If you signed with the employer to not have any side business going on then it's a different story. But you would know this in the first place, so you would only complain about not being allowed to shoot yourself in the foot.
(This is my understanding, as a person living in the US anyway.)
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Because you have a second job / side business / investment income that is independent of your primary job.
Alright, but why is that a problem? Might be a cultural difference thing that i'm not seeing. If you signed with the employer to not have any side business going on then it's a different story. But you would know this in the first place, so you would only complain about not being allowed to shoot yourself in the foot.
If the employee makes more money from that business than from yours, the employee has literally nothing to lose and may start to become sloppy with their work, not take it as seriously as he/she should, etc.
I'd say it's all about control.
I'm sure that would be just peachy when the company you work for runs all its employees and notices that you reported more income than they are paying you. It was bad enough when I worked under a government grant so my salary was public. I prefer privacy.
He was shocked. Then next day decided to tell everyone it was a fireable offence to disclose your salary.
Which we then said. That the action of making it a fireable offence is actually illegal and a fireable offence.
(He quit a number of months later)
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Social control. When everyone is watching, not properly declaring your income is much more risky.
So, how will they know "if" I'm keeping some of my income undeclared? Remember - this is the DECLARED income that is public.
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Because you have a second job / side business / investment income that is independent of your primary job.
Alright, but why is that a problem? Might be a cultural difference thing that i'm not seeing. If you signed with the employer to not have any side business going on then it's a different story. But you would know this in the first place, so you would only complain about not being allowed to shoot yourself in the foot.
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Social control. When everyone is watching, not properly declaring your income is much more risky.
So, how will they know "if" I'm keeping some of my income undeclared? Remember - this is the DECLARED income that is public.
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If I had access to such information, I would immediately try to figure out how much my colleagues and peers in other groups/companies are making. Knowing how much other people are making for similar job functions, gives you huge negotiating power in managing your career. It's a net win for all workers in society.
Have you considered the alternative approach of talking to people? A lot less creepy than cyber stalking their tax reports.
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But it reduces your ability to negotiate its also acts to keep the lower orders in their place as an atypical candidate my have started out at a lower salary and so be les likely to progress to the same level as some one born with a silver spoon in their mouth
It's easy to say that without looking at the countries we're talking about here. The nordic countries are the closest places on earth to "everyone born equally". We all have access to the same education and healthcare, whether our parents have money or not (since it is fully government-funded through taxes).