Taxation

Tax law is not known for humour, but sometimes it has it's moments...

Sweden's tax authorities are seeking the bare facts about webcam strippers' income, estimating that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law.

Fair enough. All trading income is taxable, even if it from illegal or immoral sources. But the Swedish Inland Revenue believe in educating the taxpayer....

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

So how do they find the girls?

He said the Swedish tax authorities had been tipped off about Swedish internet strippers by the Dutch authorities, who had started a similar investigation earlier.

And what happened then?

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

So the solution was....?

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

A dirty job, but someone has to do it.