EUTRADE COMMISIONER UNDER TAX FRAUD INQUIRY IN BELGIUM
January 1st, 2012
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht is under investigation in his native Belgium over concerns his purchase of a holiday home in Tuscany, Italy, could have involved tax evasion. Following a Belgian lower court tussle, (which De Gucht lost), his bank records have been handed to Belgium's Special Tax Inspectorate (ISI), a finance ministry arm combating "serious and organised tax fraud". In court, the commissioner had argued against the constitutionality of a July 2011 reform weakening Belgium's bank secrecy. De ...
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