Handed over seven suspected cases to judiciary
In certain cases, companies can have source taxes that they have paid in connection with the participation in other companies (box privilege). In many countries there are also tax breaks or exemptions for dividends. However, fraudulent refunds of taxes, especially with so-called CUM-Ex fraud in dividends, cost billions in the EU in the past.
The Pirate MP Sven Clement wants to know how many applications for reimbursement of source tax have been in the past five years in a parliamentary request from Finance Minister Gilles Roth (CSV).
According to Finance Minister Roth, 210 reimbursement applications for the various tax years have been received by the tax administration in the past five years. Of these applications, 261 were rejected with a total amount of 9.4 million euros.
In seven cases of this there was suspicion of fraud, and these cases were forwarded to the judicial authorities. Last year the number with 121 applications was the lowest number of inquiries since 2020.
« In recent years, the areas of activity of the administration have been systematically expanded, » the Ministry of Finance further announced. The recruitment of personnel will also be continued intensively in the coming years, whereby the setting of 500 people is planned in the medium term.
