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Swedish Tax Authorities Crack Down on Web Strippers

by Lee Bains on April 13, 2009 at 11:19 AM


Last week, the BBC reported that the Swedish Tax Authority (STA) has launched an investigation into the world of online stripping, a business that the Swedish government seems to regard as lucrative and largely unreported.

Dag Hardyson, the head of STA's Internet trade project, believes that as many as 500 Swedish women work as professional, online strippers, and that none of them have filed a tax return for the work. According to Hardyson's calculations, those withheld taxes could really pile up; Swedish Web strippers may owe the government as much as 20 million kronor (around $2.4 million) in back taxes, he told the AFP.

For this reason, Hardyson and his colleagues have taken their "investigation" online by perusing Swedish porn Web sites. "We had to do some manual work as well," Hardyson told the AFP. "We identified the Web sites, then we visited the Web sites. We looked at the girls and then downloaded their contact information and pictures."

Getting paid to watch Web strippers sounds like a tough job, but someone has to do it. We're sure that their wrists must be sore from all that manual work... spending all day clicking a mouse can be fatiguing. [From: BBC and AFP Via: Fox News]

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