Voyeurism and envy or the open society foundations? In finland, income and tax information are exceptionally transparent, and some say too open. The issue is topical once again as a fresh tax data released on Monday next week.
This year for the first time, it is possible to deny its own income and tax data the publication of the list, which the irs will deliver to the media. The listing is compiled of 100 000 or more worthy of the name, income and taxes paid.
the Tax of the new interpretation, it must give the finns a chance to get their own data out of this list. The reason is the EU data protection regulation and the beginning of the year extended the data protection act scope. The irs, however, decide for yourself whether to accept the request to publish an hit ellosta. The request is accepted, if the background is “personal, particular situation”.
the tax administration inspector general Noora Kontron according to the specific situation can mean, for example, some economic, health or security-related reason.
Superintendent Noora Controls to remind, that the tax and income data are still available in the tax office, although the media work from the list of information you removed was required. Verohallinto70 ban application approved
a New opportunity has wanted to use about a hundred Finnish. Controls reported that 70 applications have been processed and all of them have been approved, although a few application were asked more detailed arguments. He does not want to specify what kind of approved reasons so far have been.
it is Sometimes said that a good income listing of the end up is likely to attract crime.
The type of the arguments has been, Controls admit.
top income list for the end up it can also mental pressure for example, in a small town.
Yle is requested from the tax authorities a list of more than 100 000 eur earnings – and capital income recipients. Yle will publish, however, only a thousand in the highest income information, when the rank does not appear quite ordinary wage earners.
the end is the transparency?
Controls posits that in the coming years more and more have their personal data deleted from the list. The end is so Finnish tax transparency in the next few years?
Controls remind that the possibility to deny tax information publication applies only to the media delivery list. Income and tax data are still available from the tax office, even if the person data had been removed from the media saamalta list.
– Our view is that this media offer list is an additional service. Publicity and transparency will be realized already that the data you get from the tax office asking.
ban request processing is quite laborious and if the number of applications is growing in their treatment method need to consider, Controls said.
the irs is therefore not solved it yet, what if several hundreds or thousands of people ask for income and tax data deletion from the list.
Kontron already in the past some people have asked for data encryption, although it wasn’t possible.
the disclosure limit the requests must have been submitted to the tax authorities a week before the publication of information on November 4. day.
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