Comment by squarefoot
3 years ago
Incidentally, Norway appears among the countries with the lowest perception of corruption in the world: #4 among 180 countries (0). It would be interesting to look if there is any correlation with other countries where income records are publicly available.
0: https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-rank
All* US government salaries are public record. If you know your neighbors name and department/agency, there’s a good chance you can look them up.
Salaries are not the entire income. Corruption is usually some income in addition to a salary, but it may still be reflected in the tax record (that is, it's usually some service, board position, etc, not a suitcase full if cash).
Thus public tax records give a better transparency picture than salary records.