First Conviction In Massive German Tax Fraud Case
Faizan Hashmi Published May 23, 2018 | 05:11 PM
Frankfurt am Main, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd May, 2018 ) :A German court has ordered French bank Societe Generale to pay lender Helaba millions in compensation, the first conviction in a massive tax fraud investigation, AFP learned Wednesday.
Societe Generale must pay 23 million Euros ($27 million) in compensation and interest to Helaba over complex tax trickery known as dividend stripping or "cum-ex" deals, a court in Frankfurt ruled on April 25.
Such transactions, widely used in Germany late in the last decade, allowed owners of shares to claim several times over refunds for tax paid on dividend payouts.
A committee of the German parliament estimated the cost to the public purse mounted as high as one billion euros before the practice was outlawed in 2012.
In Societe Generale's case, Helaba sued the French bank in June 2016, claiming back taxes it had been forced to pay on 3.2 billion euros of transactions between January and June 2007. Societe Generale has one month from the ruling to appeal the case, although it had not yet done so by Wednesday.
Prosecutors are investigating a number of other "cum-ex" cases in Cologne, Munich and Frankfurt.
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