| > Illegal by whose standards? The law of any country anyone would consider civilized. Including Germany, Denmark, Lichtenstein and Switzerland. > In this case Germany has a right to the information. Well, states don't have rights. Their citizens are required to hand over the information, and the government is entitled to punish citizens that fail to do so. But that's a minor point -- Yes, Germany is entitled to that information, but they don't have a right to break the law of another country to get that information. What happened to Lichtensteins right to sovereignty? And what if it wasn't tax information, but information on ethnicity? Seriously, information about citizens that one government "has a right to", that another government doesn't mind helping you conceal. Not to bash Germany in particular, but we have privacy laws for a reason. I'm not a fan of tax-evasion, but tax collection is not, in itself, such a holy venture that it warrants any means. |