Not sure about publishing income and assets, but publishing everyone's tax bills could help stigmatise aggressive tax avoidance.
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Or incentivize. A website and forum would swiftly spring up publishing the best-optimizing taxpayers/tax-avoiders, perhaps ranking by (normal tax rate for the taxpayers' income) / (actual tax rate). People would compete to get the top spot on the ranking, and 11.5 months of the year the forum would be striving to find clever hacks to optimize.
Well if we assume users are malicious that sounds ripe for a waterhole attack, so please, go ahead! On the other hand if it becomes a standard place for tax-related information to the general public it could be a good thing.
This doesn't seem likely. Anyone who cares that much will already be paying an accountant to avoid as much tax as possible.