Editing Transparency (behavior) (section)

==Wages==
In Norway and in Sweden, tax authorities annually release the ''"skatteliste''", ''"[[taxeringskalendern]]"'', or "tax list"; official records showing the annual income and overall wealth of nearly every taxpayer.<ref name="NY">{{cite news |title = Norway Divided by Citizen Wealth Tables|date = October 23, 2009|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/business/global/24tax.html?_r=2&ref=global|work = The New York Times|access-date = 22 November 2009}}</ref>

Regulations in Hong Kong require banks to list their top earners – without naming them – by pay band.<ref name='retreat'>{{cite news | first=Jill | last=Treanor | title=Government retreats over naming bank top earners - Top 20 highest paid employees now unlikely to be identified unless they have boardroom roles | date=22 November 2009 | url =https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/nov/22/banks-top-20-earners | work = [[The Guardian]] | access-date = 22 November 2009  }}</ref>

In 2009, the Spanish government for the first time released information on the net worth of each cabinet member, but data on ordinary citizens is private. Currently, elected officials have to disclose their net worth on a yearly basis.

An unwritten norm requires that American politicians release their tax returns, in particular those running for the office of president. During the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential campaign]], [[Tax returns of Donald Trump|Donald Trump refused to release them]], breaking a 47-year-old custom, but still got elected.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Krishnankutty|first=Pia|date=2020-09-28|title=All about tax returns by US presidents, and how Trump broke a 47-year-old custom|url=https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/all-about-tax-returns-by-us-presidents-and-how-trump-broke-a-47-year-old-custom/512004/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Buettner|first1=Russ|last2=Craig|first2=Susanne|last3=McIntire|first3=Mike|date=2020-09-27|title=Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html|access-date=2021-03-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Disis|first=Jill|date=2017-01-23|title=Presidential tax returns: It started with Nixon. Will it end with Trump?|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/news/economy/donald-trump-tax-returns/index.html|access-date=2021-03-14|website=CNNMoney}}</ref>