I would love to know what % of gains from selling PII are the fines. The MO of breaking the law and paying the fines is never going to change with these laughable fines.
Point 6.4 discusses the justification in Norway, although their annual turnover data is blacked out. It looks like the authorities actually take this into account
and try to make the fine really hurt.
I had an employer refuse to provide me a return statement with the full amount they paid me. (That is, the amount on the checks they gave me).
If it is for a W-2 the IRS can get your form without much issue, but for ANY other type of income the IRS refuses to intervene until AFTER you have decided what form it should be. (1099-*, et al)
This is an odd, though seemingly reasonable (within the view of the insane system of US tax) position. The IRS told me they were unable to determine what the form should be because “we are just people who work at the IRS, what you need is a tax professional”.
Once you determine what the form should be you can leverage the IRS to demand that form from the employer.
Here’s the relevant bit. The fine for failing to provide the form is $60. <1> (mind you that is money paid to the IRS. Financial compensation for being the victim? Ha, go kick sand pal, we got ours.)
The cost to hire an accountant to determine what the correct form is $175-$275.<2>
So why provide the correct form?
It’s literally cheaper for them to be negligible and force me to spend the money to hire the accountant to determine the correct form than to hire one themselves.
