Taxpayers have until July 1 to sign concealed income and assets from the last 12 years against the existing fine of 60%. After that, the penalty is doubled to 120% on the amount due.
‘The game is finished, “said Secretary of State Eric Wiebes in response on the large-scale evasion of tax is suspected behind the Panama Papers leaked last week. “Hiding can not. After this affair by other affairs and in addition we will exchange data from 2017 with 100 other countries, “the Minister told the press Tuesday.
” the longer you wait, the more expensive it is, “Wiebe warns. After following the doubling of fines’ perhaps other steps. Who does not of itself goes to the tax authorities, could already count on a penalty of 300%. “Everyone is irrevocably into trouble walking so my message is report it to the tax authorities as it is ready”
Wiebe also called on ‘journalism’ to hand over the Panama Papers to tax authorities to avoid “that in the meantime people are just destroying the papers.” It is, according to him already been busy. “But we’d like to get started with the entire database. We are dying to that information, “said the State Secretary.
The consortium of investigative journalists that the Panama Papers holds, is expected in early May published a list of names and companies.
According to Wiebe is now also at a considerable pressure occur in countries that are not yet participating in the common information to also join ‘. Wiebe says there is also pressure on tax havens do not participate there, but recognizes that they are not all still long.
blacklist
The European Commission is working on a new blacklist of tax havens that make sanctions would get if they do not cooperate. Wiebe does not want to capture yet whether he supports. “We have to investigate the world,” he said.
Wiebe does not preclude the tax treaty with Panama, which after 5 years an evaluation is due, will not be extended. The PvdA wants it to be terminated. But according to Wiebe is valuable that can be accessed through the Convention information. “That weighs heavy. Cancelling is not inconceivable, but you need to think very deeply about. “
Parliamentary mini-survey
Wiebe reacts reluctant to the proposal to organize a parliamentary questioning in parliament with parties who are then obliged to appear and be heard under oath. His party, the VVD, the instrument rejects because the tax authorities would run for the feet.
‘It depends how you organize it. It is not surprising that the Court here want to know more, but it is complicated to question each other about information that is not publicly known and have not been sorted out. And even if they come into the open, you can not just get twelve million documents briefly read so you really need to get data techniques out what is in it. “
Weakening Commission proposal
Wiebe further acknowledged that the Netherlands is working as EU president one of the six proposals made by the European Commission to combat tax evasion, weakening. “There was a proposal which received a lot of criticism from the beginning, certainly not only in the Netherlands. We do not see how this proposal would help prevent tax avoidance, so that’s really toned. “
Brussels wants companies with associates in countries where a much lower or no income tax is levied to pay a ‘bijheffing. In a new Dutch compromise proposal would not apply to profits from real economic activities, leaving much of the objection is removed.
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