The Swedish Tax Agency found hundreds of scam companies
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- 07 Sep 2022
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"We can do a lot in our own chamber to make it more difficult for the criminals," says Åsa Gabrielsson, who is a business developer within the Swedish Tax Agency's program for "serious tax evasion" to the newspaper.
In December 2021, the government set up an investigation to prevent limited companies and companies from being used to commit crimes, but proposals are not expected to be presented until the summer of 2023. However, the Tax Agency decided to take its own measures to detect irregularities. This has been done by following up on changes in the companies' declarations.
"It is much easier to stop crime this way than to try to act afterwards," says Åsa Gabrielsson to Dagens industri.
Between autumn 2021 and summer 2022, 340 companies were sorted out for control and of these 254 have been subject to various measures. What the companies had in common was that they had all made unannounced ownership or board changes. Read More…
