Thursday, September 8, 2016

fight against tax evasion: Denmark buys the secrets of Panama Papers – The Republic

BERLIN – against the corrupt and crafty dodgers Panama Papers of the small Denmark has decided to get serious. Copenhagen has announced that it will pay anonymous sources to buy at a price of several million crowns, secret data on citizens of the kingdom suspected of defrauding the royal treasury and damaged the national economy through the illegal business conducted by many wealthy and Scrooge around the world through the law firm Mosack Fonseca in Panama.

“We must use all the measures at our disposal necesarie to catch the guilty of tax evasion that hide fortunes in foreign havens, for example in Panama, escaping the common duty of the citizens of pay taxes, “said Minister of the kingdom of the tax administration, Karsten Lauritzen, adding:” we can not be sure of the final result of the action, but everything suggests that we will have information that the Danish tax authority may use ” .

in order to obtain confidential information, which are part of about 11 and a half million of Panama Papers dossier, the Danish State will have to pay several million crowns, that some hundreds of thousands of euro. Copenhagen has targeted about 320 dossiers covering between 500 and 600 Danish taxpayers or residents in Denmark. The actual tax authorities have already examined some ‘remnants’ of the dossier and have concluded that the expense is worth to be addressed, because it will offer accurate information to launch targeted tax controls.

The decision to buy in informally dossier of Panama Papers has been criticized by an experienced attorney university law Aarhus (the second city of the ‘happiest country in the world’), Torben Bagge, according to which no guarantees that the files are accurate and truthful, and also the anonymous source who is going to sell the files to the Danish authorities “probably did not get the legally documents, which means that the Danish government makes indirectly complicit in a crime.”

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panama papers
denmark
tax evasion
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