According to the Wall Street Journal, the government is using Facebook and MySpace to find tax deadbeats.  State revenue agents have been mining through information posted on social-networking Web sites to find relocation announcements, professional profiles and financial boasts.

On MySpace a long-sought tax evader was found and forced to pay back taxes after he posted that he would be returning to work in his hometown as a real-estate broker; for which he gave the name of his employer.  The state of Minnesota ended up collecting several thousand dollars, the full amount due.  In Nebraska, agents collected $2,000 from a deejay after he advertised on his MySpace page that he would be working at a big public party.

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