Tax collectors trolling Facebook

You might want to pay your taxes before posting a professional profile or making a financial boast on a social-networking site, the tax man’s new tool for tracking deadbeats.

Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the tax man.

State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts.

By The Wall Street Journal: Read Full Article