Frankfurt The former executive used her generous compensation to fulfill a dream: a trip around the world. Years later, she is back in the middle of her professional life when she finds unpleasant mail from the tax investigation department in her mailbox. The manager is on trial for tax evasion.
At the tax office, the woman had concealed her severance payment at the time. But the tax officials noticed the one-off payment during the tax audit of their old company.
The manager’s case is fictitious, the tax office’s method is not. Tax officials have a sophisticated system of exposing tax evaders. To do this, they collect data from other taxpayers and notaries, make inquiries with social security agencies and banks or initiate tax audits.
Anonymous tipsters also play a major role: suspected cases can be reported to all financial administrations in the federal states in the same way. A few weeks ago, another tool was added in Baden-Württemberg: the newly established digital whistleblower portal for tax fraud.
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