Bifalgorithm post
"His files were good enough for countries including Germany. Austria and Australia to take tax dodgers to court. Heinz Fromellt is a tax lawyer in Lichtensteins. There was no request for example, from Germany concerning keeper cases as that they were able to prosecute them on the DA that they had. Were those prosecutions successful as far as I know, yes in many cases, no transparency, no charges, no fines, no convictions. It doesn't add up to Senator Percy Down. For six years he's tried to get information out of the CRA and reading between the lines of the blacked responses, he believe Clara turned its back on a lot more tax revenue that could have been collected in Lichtenstein because some of the Canadian accounts are decades old. If the parents or grandparents said in an offshore account, it has passed under the children or grandchildren, so it's a family trust in our likelihood. So what you learn then from these documents is that these kinds of accounts can be passed down through generations without anyone knowing absolutely, and it also means it's intergenerational. This has not been going on for six years. It may have been going on for decades, so the loss of the Canadian treasury could be massive. Needing more of that money to balance its budget, the Harper government is promising to get a lot more aggressive from collecting barely 30 million dollars last year from tax cheats. It wants half a billion dollars next year. It's even set up a new snitch line to get international cheats. But here at home. CRA auditors are going to have to get even more aggressive to meet those new targets while at the same time cutting "
"His files were good enough for countries including Germany. Austria and Australia to take tax dodgers to court. Heinz Fromellt is a tax lawyer in Lichtenstein…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Tax Evasion and Prosecution
- International Prosecutions
- Countries Involved
- Germany
- Austria
- Australia
- Prosecution Success
- Heinz Fromellt's Statement
- No Request from Germany
- Lack of Transparency
- Senator Percy Down's Efforts
- CRA Information Requests
- Reading Between the Lines
- Potential Tax Revenue Loss
- Intergenerational Accounts
- Harper Government's Response
- Aggressive Collection Target
- New Snitch Line
- CRA Auditors' Role