5 Nations Send out Spiders to Find Internet Tax Cheats on Auction Sites, Website

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5 Nations Send out Spiders to Find Internet Tax Cheats on Auction Sites, Website

01-28-2007, 10:22 AM,

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5 Nations Send out Spiders to Find Internet Tax Cheats on Auction Sites, Website

Quote:Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated web crawling program to monitor transactions on auction sites, and track operators of online shops, poker and porn sites.

The "Xenon" program -- a reference to the super-bright auto headlights that light up dark places -- was started in The Netherlands in 2004 by the Dutch equivalent of the IRS, Belastingdienst. It has since been expanded and enhanced by international group of tax authorities in Austria, Denmark, Britain and Canada, with the assistance of Amsterdam-based data mining firm Sentient Machine Research...

full article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/sec...hnology_14

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