1. Lionel Messi is convicted to commit tax evasion fraud (6.7.2016)
Lionel Messi is a Argentine professional football player who plays for Spanish club Barcelona and he is always considered to be the best footballer in recent years. He has developed a positive image all over the years. However Messi and his father are discovered that they hide assets in different countries e.g. Belize, Britain, Switzerland, Uruguay for evading tax within 2007 to 2009. The total amount of tax evaded is 4.2 million euro and the income is mainly paid by endorsing brand products. Messi is sentenced by the court to imprisonment for 21 months and paid fines on 6th July 2016. But hopefully he has been given a probation and therefore he doesn't have to go to jail at last.
2. Former Suisse banker helps U.S. citizens to evade taxes and was sentenced to imprisonment for 5 years (28.6.2016)
Michele Bergantino is a Italians who work for a Suisse bank. He is discovered to help a U.S. citizens to transfer his assets to Suisse and avoid paying tax within 2002 to 2009, over 150 million euro amount of tax is affected.
3. The US inland revenue department check whether Facebook has evaded taxes (8.7.2016)
Reports by the Sunday Times said that over the next three years, the company was planning to pay out some 280 million euro in share bonuses to staff. Which means Facebook actually reduced their amount of net profit on which originally would have to pay corporation tax. A huge amount the company has vowed to register through UK would be offset and its tax bill substantially reduced.
In this article, the writer provided three example of tax evasion. People make use of the "tax heaven" to hide their assets and tax avoidance. The large amount involved was astonishingly. It is undoubtedly that there are still many cases not expose under the connive of "tax heaven".
回覆刪除The examples that provided by you group are clearly related to the problem of tax evasion, but I think it will be much better if you also show the effects of tax evasion on different stakeholders based on the examples that given.
回覆刪除These three examples can give us a explanation of tax evasion. However, I think you can mainly focus on one examples and have a deeper analysis. You can talk about the effect of stakeholders and society or the reasons of evaded taxes. It will be much better than you just mentioned the basic information of them.
回覆刪除The examples mentioned the above blog are unexpected ones. People can be seen as using all the means to escape the taxation. But I think the method used by the famous company Facebook is clever. The intention of the sharing the bonuses to the staff is questionable, however, it is a better way than the other chose to do of evading tax.
回覆刪除This article contains three example of tax evasion. Those examples show how MHC make use of tax haven. It is quite shocking that Lionel Messi had avoid about 4.2 million euro by hidden assets in different country.
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