His decapitation cost a lowlander from Vorarlberg (48) dearly. The entrepreneur had not submitted his turnover tax return to the tax authorities for more than two years. And that despite being asked three times by the authorities.
“The jury is unanimous. You are not the big criminal and you had no criminal energy,” chairman Christoph Stadler said yesterday at the trial in Feldkirch. The entrepreneur had not submitted his turnover tax return to the tax authorities for more than two years. And that despite being asked three times by the authorities. “All my misconduct ended up in a phase where I was not doing well,” the suspect explains the omission he is accused of.
Proceedings for tax evasion
A project that threatened to outgrow him left him with psychological problems. The result: procrastination. That means the 48-year-old developed a pathological procrastination. This “burying his head in the sand” resulted in a debt of 136,000 euros to the tax authorities, which eventually led him to be charged with tax evasion.
guilty verdict
During the trial, lawyer Serkan Akman steps in on behalf of his previously impeccable client: “He has not exercised the due diligence he should have exercised as an entrepreneur. But he used to have a hefty turnover tax plus at the tax authorities. He had not taken that money either. The Tax and Customs Administration therefore suffered no damage at all. The debt has been paid.” Nevertheless, the trial ends with a conviction for tax evasion. Fine: 30,000 euros, half of which is conditional.
Source: Krone
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