Viking Magazine - April 2010 - 40

PEOPLE are
LOOKING
. . . and here's why.
In a 2008 survey, 40 percent of Norwegians
said they had searched the tax lists.
These were the reasons they gave. (Some
gave more than one.)
67%
11%
10%
6%
5%
4%
4%
3%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
Curious
See if the numbers check out
Fun
Interesting
Compare with others
Useful
Salary or wage negotiations
Not sure
Exciting
Because I can
Investigate or turn someone in
See if tax system works
Other
SOURCE: NORWEGIAN TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION/SYNOVATE
One place that phrase shows up is in
newspaper articles, like one headlined,
" Here Are the Zeroes, " identifying some
of Norway's wealthiest citizens who pay
no taxes. " Here's How They Pay Zero
Tax " examined loopholes in the tax system.
Headlines like those are sensational
to be sure, but they represent the public
scrutiny and debate that the skattelister
were intended to generate, according to
Thomas Spence, an Aftenposten reporter
serving as vice president of the Norwegian
Journalists Union.
NEAREST, DEAREST-
AND MOST CHECKED ON
Norwegians who've searched the tax lists say they've looked up:
61%
53%
42%
26%
25%
23%
18%
11%
6%
Friends
Colleagues from work
Other relatives
Neighbors
Celebrities
Others
Politicians
Denise Logeland is managing editor of
SOURCE: NORWEGIAN TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION/SYNOVATE
Twin Cities Business magazine and a former
editor of Viking.
40 V I K I N G A pri l 2010
Immediate family
Myself
Spence says the tax lists are a valuable
tool for showing the public how
the tax system really works, and whether
" the financing of the welfare state
is equally or justly shared. " Recent
investigative reporting by Aftenposten's
journalists made use of the tax lists and
helped reveal corruption by the manager
of the public waterworks in Nedre
Romerike, he says.
Despite that, Tybring-Gjedde says,
" There's no value added at all to society "
by publishing the lists. If it's important
to see what everyone contributes to the
welfare state, he asks, why isn't it just as
important to see how much everyone
gets from the state? (He hastens to add
that his party doesn't actually want to see
that list published either, but he says raising
the question exposes hypocrisy.)
Publishing the lists smacks of jealousy
toward those who are successful, Tybring-Gjedde
says: It's a " classic example
of Janteloven. " He's referring to the
Scandinavian ethos-coined in an Aksel
Sandemose novel-that says, " Don't
think you're anyone special. Don't think
you're better than us. "
The FrP proposal is bound to go
down in defeat, Egeland says, given the
current left-leaning government. If that
happens, some will see it as a victory for
transparency, while others will say it's
clear that nosiness won out. V

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