Rossmann: New office against tax is pure PR Scam Show

NOW calls: Instead of the misnomer Löger is to ensure more transparency

Vienna (OTS) – „The today by Finance Minister Hartwig Löger, announced the office against tax fraud is just another Episode in the self-staged PR-Show of the government, in the melodious end of terms ,such as, Predictive Analytics‘ about the content“, says Bruno Rossmann, club Chairman and Finance spokesman, NOW, and holds:
„The amalgamation of the former units to combat tax fraud appears to make sense, what is crucial is the Details of the implementation, as well as the staffing will be.“

Rossmann calls for caution: „We will examine the project carefully, because the Minister of Finance Löger it was, has already been made several times against more transparency in terms of tax avoidance and fraud: for example, the rejection of the public Country-by-Country reporting, or the disclosure of the beneficial owner in the context of the implementation of the fourth money Directive and the removal of various tax havens of the black list of the EU’s wash.“

Rossmann sees in addition to the tax fraud in the legal tax avoidance of the need for action: „of Course, tax fraud. But here the Minister of Finance Löger has cleared up far more covered up than, for example, in the Cum-Ex-fraud scandal, where he has denied, until recently, any harm. When he speaks of the great fishing, then they do not have to rely on fraud, but can often move quite legal their tax burden. In this regard, the Minister of Finance Löger has failed during the presidency of the EU on both the Digital as well as the financial transaction tax have been worn under his presidency, de facto, to the grave. Instead, he fired rather the downward spiral of corporate taxation by the planned reduction in the corporate income tax. Instead of a PR Show and sham, in the case of the old things, only new name, he should finally provide more transparency and promote, at EU level, according to the. Transparency is the strongest weapon to combat tax.“

NOW in the Parliament
Mag. Martin Friessnegg
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martin.friessnegg@nr-klub.jetzt