[dayglored]

For a couple million in tax revenue, the government pays officials to surf strip sites.

WOW! WHAT A JOB! /s

[Vaquero]

taxes are stuffed into g-strings.

[Erik Latranyi]

"They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules,"

I'm sure after staring at their pictures that there is no shortage of volunteers available to 'educate' these young women.

[dayglored]

More from the article:

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.

"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. We want them to register their activity as a business - it's still taxable, even if it's a hobby," he said.

He stressed the difficulty of identifying strippers, saying the contact information on the websites was often "not obvious".

1. 50% tax rate. That's pretty harsh.

2. They expect these girls to give real contact information out on the internet????

What a bunch of maroons.

[Redbob]

Need I point out that a thread like this is worth little without pictures to provide perspective?

[Hegemony Cricket]

A job that would make you want to work hard?

[FatherofFive]

Project leader Dag Hardyson said 200 Swedish strippers had been investigated so far. He said the total could be 500.

Stripper investigator. Great work if you can find it.

[Snickering Hound]

[ArmstedFragg]

We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules

Oh believe me, they know the rules.... all the rules.

[Hoodat]

Any word on whether Poland will initiate a Pole Dance Tax?

[myaccount2009]

This is the worst example of government excess I’ve ever heard of

[Charles Martel]

The search involves tax officials examining websites that feature Swedish strippers, in an effort to identify them...

Identify them? How, by birthmarks and such? This sounds a bit like the "Have You Seen This Prick?" scene in Porky's. Call the police sketch artist!!

[I Shall Endure]

“When we investigated the sites manually it worked better,” he added.

Yeah, I bet it did.

[OrangeHoof]

Web search tools like spiders had failed to detect the Swedish strippers.

"When we investigated the sites manually it worked better," he added.

Yeah, I'd imagine that manual investigation probably is more effective. LOL

[Reaganesque]

Why do I get the feeling that someone in the tax office got caught using his office computer to surf for porn, got caught and then claimed that he was “investigating tax fraud” as a cover story? “I only read it for the articles,” was a more credible excuse.

[colorado tanker]

"When we investigated the sites manually it worked better," he added.

Yep, this definitely calls for hands on investigation.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

There are rules, people!