Wired: Tax Takers Send in the Spiders

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated 
web crawling program to monitor transactions on auction sites, and track operators of online shops, poker and porn sites."

Austria, Denmark, UK, Canada and The Netherlands are participating in this "Xenon" project already.

And this comment from Sweden government, outside of the program (but coming soon) is very interesting:
"But Hardyson said the Swedish government -- which already has its own internally developed tax crawlers -- is currently keeping a copy of 
everything it spiders. That means that someone's long-expired actions have the potential to come back and haunt them. "We can scan and 
store all actions for every e-marketplace in Sweden, it's about 55,000 per day," said Hardyson."

Link to the Wired News:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/security/0,72564-0.html?tw=wn_index_29

- Juha-Matti
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