The Tax Commission has reported yet another leak in the Thorning-Schmidt tax case to the police after confidential diary contents from a Copenhagen tax director have been acquired and disclosed by the tabloid BT.

The Commission says that in the process leading to publication, a crime must have been committed as possession of the documents in question is illegal.

The documents published by BT, a broader collection of which the newspaper is selling access to on its website, purport to be 2010 diary memorandum notes penned by Copenhagen Tax Director Lisbeth Rasmussen.

Although Rasmussen is reported to have deleted the diary notes from her computer, police found a back-up copy.

The printed segments of the diary display a difficult relationship between the Copenhagen Tax Authority and the Tax Ministry. The notes leave little doubt that in Rasmussen’s view the Tax Ministry attempted to meddle in the authority’s handling of the case.

Under Danish rules and practice, the Tax Ministry is not permitted to involve itself in the decision-making process surrounding individual tax cases.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt became prime minister a year after the notes were written. Immediately prior to the 2011 election, however, BT printed the leaked Tax Authority decision in what was a confidential and private tax issue.

The decision found the prime minister’s husband Stephen Kinnock had not done anything wrong in paying tax in Switzerland, where he worked and lived at the time, rather than in Denmark.

It still remains unclear as to who leaked the Tax Authority decision to BT.

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