At least 35 companies, among them Anheuser - Busch InBev, BP, and BASF, have been told to pay back taxes of about 700 million euros to Belgium because of their participation in
an illegal tax scheme.
Gallivan says CRA has been careful in spending the extra money, adding to the ranks of auditors for large multinational companies, targeting promoters of
illegal tax schemes and beefing up the criminal investigation teams with lawyers at the earliest stages.
Not exact matches
The government says that in a second
scheme, Mr. Silver obtained about $ 700,000 in
illegal payments through the law firm Goldberg & Iryami in exchange for having the two developers send the law firm certain
tax business.
In 2002, federal investigators said Mr. Litwin and dozens of other property owners had received
illegal tax breaks arranged by a consultant who was charged with bribing
tax assessors in a
scheme that cost the city $ 160 million in revenue over four years.
Apple is also under fire for its elaborate
tax avoidance
schemes (avoidance = legal; evasion =
illegal).
ExxonMobil and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are running an
illegal scheme to promote the oil giant's climate denial policies and legislative agenda in violation of U.S.
tax law governing charitable organizations, the Center for Media Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause charged today.