It is one of the last taboos. You can swear on television and breastfeed in public, but you cannot talk about how much you earn. Not in Britain, at least. Viewed from Scandinavia, the controversy around the UK government forcing the BBC to reveal the salaries of its top presenters was hard to understand.
Each year Sweden, Finland and Norway publish everyone’s income tax returns. In Sweden anyone can find out anyone’s salary with a quick phone call to the tax authorities. The person whose returns you request will know it was you, but that is all.
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