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Update: Smile, The TaxMan is Still Watching

February 14th, 2007

Back in March we blogged about lifestyle audits and the TaxMan:

The TaxMan It’s as much a concern as ever. Here’s the high points of that article:

There’s no question we all feel that we pay too much tax. But that’s never stopped our federal and provincial governments from seeking out new ways to prevent you from keeping more of your money in your wallet. Their latest initiative is a carefully targeted stealth campaign that uses lifestyle audits to assess your spending – where you live, how often you travel, what type of car you drive, how many big ticket purchases you make in a year – and then compare it to your declared income to see if it all adds up.

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Coming forward to the TaxMan NOW, on your own or through an accountant, can expose you to criminal prosecution and penalties!

If they think it doesn’t, you could suddenly find yourself in the middle of an investigation for criminal tax evasion. If you’ve been cheating on your taxes—not reporting all your income, hiding money offshore, or maybe just not bothering to file a return every year — it won’t be long before the TaxMan comes knocking on your door. And while you’re under investigation, the TaxMan can freeze your bank accounts, seize your car, your investments, your property, and otherwise tie up virtually everything you own. If you are convicted of criminal tax evasion, penalties can be as much as 250% of the tax owing. Plus daily interest. A jail term of up to two years is also possible.

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In the meantime, keep smiling! Because the taxman is still watching!

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The Tax Man in Your Website Logs – A Horror Story Part II

February 7th, 2007

If you’ve been scouring your website logs for a bot named “Xenon” since reading our last post, you can stop now. While Google’s spider is easy to recognize by the familiar moniker “Googlebot,” the TaxMan won’t be so easy to spot.

The bot names, or ‘user agents’ for the web savvy, of the spiders used by the tax cartel have not been released. Nor will they. Marten den Uyl of data mining firm Sentient Machine Research says the user agent (bot name) is likely to be variable or configurable on the tax investigator’s part.

For the web savvy, that means you cannot add a modifier to your robots.txt file to keep the tax man out.

Generally, it’s easy to distinguish bot traffic in your server logs by the sheer speed at which a spider (bot) can traverse web pages. When it comes to keepign the TaxMan out, think again, and think covert.

Where a typical search engine bot can hit thousands of pages in a second, Xenon uses a slow search paradigm that mimics human surfing. The TaxMan’s spider could take minutes, hours or even days to digest your website.

The slow search prevents Xenon’s bot from creating excess traffic or drawing attention to itself in the website’s server logs.

Xenon’s spider can even be configured to target specific niches… industries that traditionally have a high incidence of non-filing. While you may not know which industries have a high rate of tax evasion, rest assured that the TaxMan does.

Once the web pages are crawled and documented, Xenon’s Identity Information Extraction Module will interface with national databases that contain information such as names, city names and streets. It will then cross refer all the information it’s gathered with national tax records.

“Of course it’s not illegal,” Par Strom, a noted privacy advocate in the world of Swedish IT, says. “I don’t feel quite comfortable having a tax office sending out those kind of spiders.”

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