the tax administration raises the claim of a triple digit million amount against a Danish law firm in the case of fraud with the dividend tax.
It informs the agency in a press release Thursday.
According to the tax administration, advising the law firm of a foreign bank, who wrongly got reimbursed the tax by the Danish shareholder revenues.
Both the tax administration and the state attorney – Attorney general – believes that the law firm in this way has contributed to the fraud.
– the Requirement is currently estimated to be a three-digit million amount – an amount that the page can be efterreguleret, if the other called pay what they are summoned for, as it says in the press release.
the law Firm has been given ten days to pay the three-digit millions. If this is not done, the company will be the regatta.
the tax administration wants with regard to its professional secrecy not to disclose the name of the law firm, just as it did not mention the exact amount.
According to dr.dk, however, the law firm Bech-Bruun, there are required about 750 million dollars to have advised the German bank North Channel Bank in 2014 and 2015.
North Channel Bank acknowledged last year, aggravated fraud, and aiding and abetting fraud against the Danish state for 1.1 billion dollars. The bank was at the Court in Glostrup sentenced to a fine of 110 million crowns.
Fraud with dividend tax stood at from 2012 to 2015 and has been called the biggest skattetyveri.
By the use of the fictitious shareholdings and forged documentation, it succeeded a number of actors to draining the Danish treasury more than $ 12 billion.
the tax administration assesses on an ongoing basis, of whether there can be a claim against all parties involved in the case, including to consultants in sagskomplekset.
– Our task is to get as many of the 12.7 billion dollars home to the Danish treasury as possible. We are working all the time hard on, says Steen Bechmann Jacobsen, technical director in the Special Control in the tax administration, in the press release.
– It is Kammeradvokatens recommendation that we correct the claim against the Danish law firm. Tax administration has, therefore, sent orders for payment to the law firm, and we are ready to rally, if the amount is not being paid.
Excise writing that it has no further comments on the matter.
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