Big Brother Using Facebook and MySpace to Find Tax Deadbeats
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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