Some backers have in a widely reported case on fraud with Danish withholding tax been allowed to draw billions from the settlement, they have signed with the tax administration.
It writes Politiken and TV2, which together with the German Süddeutsche Zeitung and the belgian magazine Knack has got the 51 page hemmeligstemplede settlement agreement.
Of the it appears that they did not receive the previously announced 2.9 billion dollars out of the treasury, but rather to 4.1 billion kroner.
Yet it’s far from the whole amount which will be paid back. In the agreement is the tax administration agreed that the planners should pay the 1.6 billion back.
It is due to, among other things, that the traffickers have been allowed to deduct their expenses incurred in connection with the performance of the fraud from the.
The solution is absurd, thinks law professor Eva Smith, who has read the settlement through. She compares the deduction that a person breaks into a villa, take the 20,000 dollars from a safety deposit box, but will be taken by the owner, which requires its money back.
– So he says: No, no, you can’t get, because I’ve bought a cutting torch, it cost 2000, and I’ve talked with an expert in how to stop your burglar alarm before, and he will have 4000. There was the one that kept watch for me, he will have 3000, then the money should be drawn from, she says to TV2.
The two Danish media brought earlier in the week the names of two persons in the UNITED states, which was to be the ringleaders of a network that has drawn the 4.1 billion dollars out of Denmark. They are called Matthew Stein and Jerome Lhote.
Since then has grown Karsten Lauritzen (V) at a press conference in may could tell that it had entered into a settlement, it was told that forligspartnerens share in the supposed scams run up in an ‘amount of total 2.9 billion’ dollars.
According to the forligsdokumentet contrast, it is ‘more than 4.1 billion dollars’. Neither the amount or the ability to draw expenditure from it was mentioned during the press conference.
– therefore There is not given any kind of discount or the like in connection with this settlement, said Steen Bechmann Jacobsen, the responsible director of the tax administration, on the contrary at the time.
Fraud should have taken place from 2012 to 2015, and in all believes tax administration, the Danish state was cheated out of 12.7 billion dollars.
