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Tax minister explores temporary amnesty for tax cheats to encourage them to turn themselves in Tax authority SKAT has uncovered millions of kroner in unpaid tax, especially from off-shore accounts. But Tax Minister Kristian Jensen has aired the possibility of...
Tax authority SKAT has uncovered millions of kroner in unpaid tax, especially from off-shore accounts.
But Tax Minister Kristian Jensen has aired the possibility of offering a temporary amnesty to tax cheats so they can turn themselves in.
Experience from other countries has shown that such an amnesty is effective in getting people to come forward, he told DR News.
SKAT has launched its most extensive investigation in recent months, checking account information authorized by the National Tax Board, especially transactions between Danish financial institutions and banks in up to 40 tax haven countries.
The authority is investigating transactions that date as far back as five years ago and expects the haul to yield hundreds of millions of kroner.
And it has emerged that many Danish companies have paid bonuses of top executives and managers into off-shore accounts.
SKAT is currently dealing with 50 cases of companies and between 300 and 400 cases involving individuals who were paid into off-shore accounts and didn’t declare their earnings to the authority.
According to DR news, employees of the Clipper shipping company have had their bonuses paid by a Bahamas-based company for the last decade and up to 50 workers could be in the tax authority’s firing line.
‘It’s correct that the bonuses were paid out from the Bahamas, but we had also told our employees that they should remember to declare the money,’ said Per Gullestrup of Clipper.
SKAT’s Project Credit Card has also been studying internationally-registered credit cards with a high level of use in Denmark – suggesting that the Danish cardholders have foreign accounts.
`We don’t know how much money is being transferred from Danish accounts abroad, but with the internet it’s become extremely easy to conduct financial transactions across country borders,’ said Preben Buchholtz of SKAT’s office for financial crime
source: jp.dk - Danes caught using tax havens
Tax authority SKAT has uncovered millions of kroner in unpaid tax, especially from off-shore accounts.
But Tax Minister Kristian Jensen has aired the possibility of offering a temporary amnesty to tax cheats so they can turn themselves in.
Experience from other countries has shown that such an amnesty is effective in getting people to come forward, he told DR News.
SKAT has launched its most extensive investigation in recent months, checking account information authorized by the National Tax Board, especially transactions between Danish financial institutions and banks in up to 40 tax haven countries.
The authority is investigating transactions that date as far back as five years ago and expects the haul to yield hundreds of millions of kroner.
And it has emerged that many Danish companies have paid bonuses of top executives and managers into off-shore accounts.
SKAT is currently dealing with 50 cases of companies and between 300 and 400 cases involving individuals who were paid into off-shore accounts and didn’t declare their earnings to the authority.
According to DR news, employees of the Clipper shipping company have had their bonuses paid by a Bahamas-based company for the last decade and up to 50 workers could be in the tax authority’s firing line.
‘It’s correct that the bonuses were paid out from the Bahamas, but we had also told our employees that they should remember to declare the money,’ said Per Gullestrup of Clipper.
SKAT’s Project Credit Card has also been studying internationally-registered credit cards with a high level of use in Denmark – suggesting that the Danish cardholders have foreign accounts.
`We don’t know how much money is being transferred from Danish accounts abroad, but with the internet it’s become extremely easy to conduct financial transactions across country borders,’ said Preben Buchholtz of SKAT’s office for financial crime
source: jp.dk - Danes caught using tax havens
