More and more private individuals and companies are attempting to avoid taxes and have been reported to the police for tax evasion.
In 2008, the Tax Authority reported 610 cases of tax or VAT avoidance or some other form of evasion to the police, compared with 355 in 2007.
Police swamped
The number of new cases is so great that the police is being swamped, and the number of outstanding cases has grown by 80 percent over the past two years, according to a memorandum from the Tax Authority.
“These are all sorts of different types of cases – from simple cases in which private people have hidden funds in tax havens abroad, to the major, spectacular cases in which companies have avoided millions in tax payments,” says Tax Authority Senior Consultant Jens Christiansen.
Edited by Julian Isherwood
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