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Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers

Posted by samzenpus on from the anything-for-my-job dept.

Sweden's tax authorities are cracking down on unreported webcam stripper income. They estimate that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law, resulting in a tax loss of about 40m Swedish kronor (£3.3m) annually. The search involves tax officials examining stripper websites, hours upon hours, for completely legitimate purposes. A slightly disheveled project leader said 200 Swedish strippers had been investigated so far, adding the total could be as much as 500. "They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules," he said.

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  1. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who are they, their pimps?

  2. "We need to investigate this... closely..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'd like to volunteer for this job myself."

  3. Hiring? by natespizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they hiring?

  4. Re:I Volunteer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vulcan blood is green, you insensitive clod! And close the basement door on the way up!

  5. Actual, direct quote from TFA by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    I'll bet it did.

  6. Re:Well... by dzfoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overtime!

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  7. Wait a second... by downix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tax agents get to do what?  **preps a resume for the IRS**

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  8. Re:Well... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Manually, adverb. "By means of the hand."

    I suspect that there may have been, shall we say, more than one "manual investigation" going on...

  9. I want a full report! by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need a full report immediately. URLs, logins and passwords used for research, all imagery from the sites that will be in the corpus of evidence including videos, names, phone numbers, price structures, everything!

  10. Yeah, right. by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    The search involves tax officials examining stripper websites, hours upon hours, for completely legitimate purposes.

    We have a slightly different enforcement issue in the Seattle area. Illegal activity in a few strip clubs. The police department spends quite a bit of time and money sending undercover officers to buy lap dances from the women looking for violations. With public funds, of course.

    OK guys, what about the activity in the gay clubs? Any volunteers for undercover duty?
    [Sound of crickets.]

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  11. You only have to pay tax if you get caught by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't you know? Ask Timothy Geithner he'll tell you.

     

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  12. Re:Queue Idiocracy by xerxesVII · · Score: 5, Funny

    The word you're looking for is "The".

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