The Swedish IRS strikes down on professionell poker players and demands accounting for money won between 2008 and 2011, especially from sites outside the EU.
Sources and more information:
http://www.poker.se/nyheter/77962442...erspelare.html
Discussion at swedish forum:
http://pokerforum.nu/forum/ekonomi-s...igsstigen.html
The tax rules are ridiculous, money that cannot be accounted for, will be seen as income (e g money goes from EU site to MoneyBookers to Stars and the correct history cannot be restored/requested).
So far I've been updated that if player A wins 100k on site A and loses it on site B, player A has to pay approximately 33% tax on the winnings from site A, even though he is break even as a total. The IRS has started seizing computers and hard drives already.
This is a minor black friday for all winning swedish poker players.
I really feel for people that binced on sites like Full Tilt and Stars.com.
Last edited by Disorienter; 11-20-2012 at 05:35 PM.