Facebook helps you connect and share even with the people you don’t want in your life…….
Seems the Taxman in Belgium is using facebook (and e-bay) to keep track of the lifestyles of taxpayers and compare that with their tax return!
I would be amazed if this is not happening in the UK too. I once said in a newspaper article that I had a cottage ‘that I was prepared to rent at a low rent to a young couple’ – come my next tax return, there was the tax man with that cutting snipped out of the paper, not even an advert. Very little escapes them.

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Do as I do. Tell them to fuck off.
In all seriousness, I am about to declare myself dead. I intend to send fake death certificates to all and sundry in an attempt to get the bastards to leave me alone.
It’s a £5000 fine if you get caught. Big Deal. I pay more than that in tax every quarter.
Fook Facebook.
And Twitter too
Sorry. Let myself go for a mo …
Old Holborn.
If you get fined you will pay back taxes plus interest.
Good luck though.