That you have to decide yourself :) My view is that tax information is clearly private (in Canada, this can include medical expenditures, sports expenditures, etc.) so you would need a public interest argument to overcome it and that would probably have to be limited to certain cases or classes of people (as with officials or senior officials as Vanja was arguing).
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 On 13 Dec 2012, at 21:13, Zahid Abdullah wrote: > Thanks everyone for answering the question. What should be our position? > Should the tax data be made public? What are the pros and cons? > Zahid > > > From: Venkatesh Nayak > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:05 AM > To: 'Francesca' ; 'Toby Mendel' > Cc: 'FOI Advocates' > Subject: Re: [foianet] Parliamentarians Tax Data > > Dear all, > Perhaps Norway is the only country which allowed public disclosure of > taxpayer data for a month in October. Do they still do it? > Thanks > Venkat > > From: foianet-boun...@lists.foiadvocates.info > [mailto:foianet-boun...@lists.foiadvocates.info] On Behalf Of Francesca > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:26 PM > To: Toby Mendel > Cc: FOI Advocates > Subject: Re: [foianet] Parliamentarians Tax Data > > Hello Toby, Zahid and everyone, > > What happened is quickly said, alas: the Italian Data Protection Agency > stepped in 24 hours after the online publication of the data, following a > flurry of protests, and orderes their removal, arguing it was a breach of > privacy :-/ > > Best regards, > > Francesca > > > > -- > Francesca Fanucci > Lawyer - Consultant on freedom of expression > Senior Associate at Free Expression Associates (www.foeassociates.com) > London, UK > Email: franf...@gmail.com > Skype account: franfanu > Fax: 0044 7092872411 > Linkedin profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/francescafanucci > > > "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" -- > (George Orwell) > > > On 13 Dec 2012, at 08:19, Toby Mendel <t...@law-democracy.org> 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 > > > > > > -- > Francesca Fanucci > Lawyer - Consultant on freedom of expression > Senior Associate at Free Expression Associates (www.foeassociates.com) > London, UK > Email: franf...@gmail.com > Skype account: franfanu > Fax: 0044 7092872411 > Linkedin profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/francescafanucci > > > "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" -- > (George Orwell) > > > On 13 Dec 2012, at 08:19, Toby Mendel <t...@law-democracy.org> 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 > > > > > 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/ > > > > 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; skype: > zahidisd > > >
