Same in Montenegro and i find it really absurd that public officials report data on property but we cannot see their taxes! It doesn't help even when we justify that revealing such data could disclose corruption (special article from the law defines such data should be published even if otherwise secret). Does anyone have some good judicial practice we could use in litigation? We have already filed a few cases to the court Best regards, Vanja Calovic
Sent from my phone -----Original Message----- From: stas...@transparency.org.mk Sender: foianet-boun...@lists.foiadvocates.info Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:46:31 To: Toby Mendel<t...@law-democracy.org> Cc: FOI Advocates<foianet@foiadvocates.info> Subject: Re: [foianet] Parliamentarians Tax Data The same in Macedonia, tax data are not public for any citizen. On 2012-12-13 08:19, Toby Mendel wrote: > Same in Canada. And Italy, although apparently the Min. of Finance > released all of the tax records one year in a Rambo move towards > openness which cause a lot of furore, although I am not sure what > happened. > > Toby > > ___________________________________ > > TOBY MENDEL > EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR > > CENTRE FOR LAW AND DEMOCRACY > t...@law-democracy.org > Tel: +1 902 431-3688 > Fax: +1 902 431-3689 > www.law-democracy.org [3] > > On 13 Dec 2012, at 03:53, Alexander Kashumov wrote: > >> Hi Zahid, >> >> In Bulgaria tax data of both citizens and officials (including >> parliamentarians) are not public. Only data of income and assets of >> high ranking officials are public, but tax data definitely not. >> >> As far as I know, though I might be wrong, everywhere in Europe is >> the same with the exception of Sweden and Norway (Denmark left that >> small community on that matter few years ago). In Norway I heard there >> is debate to stop this openness as well. >> >> But let other countries speak about their situation themselves! I am >> also curious to know whether there are new/other developments. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Alexander >> >> Alexander Kashumov, attorney-at-law >> Head of Legal Team >> Access to Information Programme >> 76 Vassil Levski Blvd. Apt.3 >> 1142 Sofia, Bulgaria >> + 3592 9885062; 9867709 >> E-mail: kashu...@aip-bg.org >> >> На 2012-12-13 22:01, Zahid Abdullah написа: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wonder in how many countries tax data is regarded as public data? >>> In Pakistan, tax data is not regarded as public data. CPDI and CRIP >>> jointly carried out studied titled ‘Representation without Taxation’ >>> which was launched yesterday and which has been largely carried out >>> by local and international newspapers. It was also topic of different >>> evening television talk shows here. Following is the link of the >>> story >>> Minister, Lawmakers evading tax: Study >>> http://dawn.com/2012/12/13/ministers-lawmakers-evading-tax-study/ >>> [1] >>> >>> Zahid Abdullah >>> Program Manager >>> Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) >>> House No. 409-B, Main Nazim-ud-Din Road, F-11/1, Islamabad, >>> Pakistan >>> Phone:+92 51 2108287 (Ext.102), Fax:+92 51 2101594, Cell:+92 333 >>> 5214748 >>> email: za...@cpdi-pakistan.org, website: www.cpdi-pakistan.org [2]; >>> skype: zahidisd > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://dawn.com/2012/12/13/ministers-lawmakers-evading-tax-study/ > [2] http://www.cpdi-pakistan.org > [3] http://www.law-democracy.org
