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Everyone's taxes should be public information. There are too many rich assholes hiding the fact that they don't pay their fair share.
Sweden. It's not for the current year but the previously declared incomes. Anyone can get them. Seems to work just fine.
How does making it public stop that problem? If anything that would probably just screw people over if potential employers could see exactly how much money you make. Let's make it illegal for an employer to ask how much you currently make, but then let employers just query a DB of your income? That doesn't make any sense.
Ok but you could also see how much they are paying other people which I feel like would even things out.
“We see you currently make 50k, so we’re gonna offer you 60k”
“I see you are paying everyone else 80k for the same job, so I won’t take any less”
That's just going to drive down labor. And some titles have pay ranges of line 75k to 100k based on experience. And the employee is at a disadvantage since they don't have the list of all employees to do the research themselves.
Well for starters you can spread awareness of how much the ultra rich steal. If you're in the eroding middle class and see that you pay more taxes than the ultra rich you might be more incline to raise taxes on them.
That actually goes both ways. That in a sense makes wages public which means the employers can't screw over employees because most employees don't know how much others make. And I don't know how employers really benefit from it. If you're in a position to demand more pay it doesn't matter how much you currently make, what matters is how much they're willing to pay to hire you. If they think less of you because of how much you make then you probably don't want to work there anyway.
It doesn't go both ways. That is why states like New York have banned employers from being able to ask current salary. And made it mandatory to post pay ranges on postings. And those ranges are huge.
You are right employees are better off knowing what others make, but once the employer knows what you make you are screwed. It can be a game of chicken where the employee loses. If current prospect employee makes 60k but asks for 90k, the employer can still just offer 75 or 80k assuming you will not be willing to walk away from a 15k raise.