US embassy officials committing tax-fraud in Norway. Perhaps the NGO’s and the UN could start taking a look there:

“Authorities in Norway accused more than 50 Norwegian citizens working for the U.S. Embassy over the past several years of tax evasion, claiming that staff members had failed to report their full income.

The nation’s tax administration said Wednesday that employees at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo avoided paying full taxes on annual salaries of between 100,000 Norwegian kroner ($16,400) and 600,000 kroner. Some of the evasion took place over several years on sums totaling up to two million kroner, the administration said.

“The Norwegian Tax Administration takes seriously cases where tax payers consciously avoid disclosing their taxable income,” Tax Director Hans Christian Holte said. Those that are convicted will have to pay back taxes and face fines that equal between 45% and 60% of the gross salary earned during the period in question.

In some cases, the total fee could be as high as 90%. The maximum prison sentence for tax evasion in Norway is six years, and jail terms are assigned to serious offenders.

In Norway, all employers must reported salaries to the government. Embassy payrolls aren’t legally exempt from this rule, but several embassies in Oslo, including the U.S. Embassy, don’t report salaries to the Norwegian government.

Foreign diplomats pay taxes to their home countries and don’t have to report their salaries to Norwegian authorities, but Norwegian staff at foreign embassies are required to pay taxes to Norway. “It’s the tax payer’s duty to disclose the correct information in tax returns,” Mr. Holte said.”