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google's street view catches tax cheaters; in europe
Topic Started: Fri May 31, 2013 4:18 pm (198 Views)
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VILNIUS, Lithuania—One day last summer, a woman was about to climb into a hammock in the front yard of a suburban house here when a photographer for the Google Inc. (GOOG) Street View service snapped her picture.

The apparently innocuous photograph is now being used as evidence in a tax-evasion case brought by Lithuanian authorities against the undisclosed owners of the home.

Some European countries have been going after Google, complaining that the search giant is invading the privacy of their citizens. But tax inspectors here have turned to the prying eyes of Street View for their own purposes.

After Google's car-borne cameras were driven through the Vilnius area last year, the tax men in this small Baltic nation got busy. They have spent months combing through footage looking for unreported taxable wealth.

"We were very impressed," said Modestas Kaseliauskas, head of the State Tax Authority. "We realized that we could do more with less and in shorter time."

More than 100 people have been identified so far after investigators compared Street View images of about 500 properties with state property registries looking for undeclared construction.


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I am not a pony

they got pictures of me in the backyard wearing a hot bikini

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they are going to tax her hammock?
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Live long and prosper.....!!

wissaboo
Fri May 31, 2013 9:51 pm
they are going to tax her hammock?
Well we hear that the UK govt are trying to bring in a bedroom tax, so a hammock tax wouldn't surprise me !!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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Lus
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Sherlock... I mean... KHANNNNNNN

Wow :lol:

My car is on Google street view!
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It's a Star Trek Miracle!
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my trailer is hidden from the street :lol:
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Street View is one thing, but only start worrying if/when they start using Satellite View complete with thermal imaging capabilities...!!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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