Austria: Special Commission to Trace Tax Evaders

People ♦ Published: May 23, 2013; 11:36 ♦ (Vindobona)

Finance Minister Maria Fekter announced the establishing of a special commission which is supposed to use data distributed by the US tax authority.

Austria: Special Commission to Trace Tax Evaders / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Austria has now expressed interest in the collected data of tax evaders who hide their assets in foreign tax havens. Finance Minister Fekter has founded the “Special Commission Offshore-Leaks”, as confirmed by a spokesperson of the Ministry in a preliminary report of Austrian magazine “News”. The aim was to receive and evaluate data in cooperation with international tax…