スペインの財務省は、ジブラルタルでの脱税対策室を創設
Hacienda acecha a Gibraltar
La Agencia Tributaria crea un grupo de trabajo para evitar la evasión de cientos de millones a través del Peñón
Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid 22 ABR 2013 - 01:21 CET
Finance stalks Gibraltar
The Tax creates a task force to prevent the escape of hundreds of millions across the Rock
Jesus Gonzalez Madrid Sérvulo 22 ABR 2013 - 1:21 CET
Lisbeth Salander, the iconoclastic star of the popular series written by Stieg Larsson Millenium travels to Gibraltar in the last book of the trilogy to open a secret account in which 2,400 million euros hide had pilfered a corrupt organization. Until recently was considered one Gibraltar tax havens by the major international institutions. In recent years the authorities of Gibraltar have signed information exchange agreements with almost twenty countries and have made changes to its tax system to get out of the blacklist. But Spain is considering a tax haven by which every year hundreds of millions of euros beyond the control and evade tax.
Gibraltar works, in fact, as one of the so-called off-shore territories [term that is known in financial jargon tax limbs] where important businessmen installed on the Costa del Sol move their business and part of their heritage to avoid the taxman.
So Treasury is closing in on the territory. It has formed a working group with special delegations of Andalucia, Ceuta and Melilla to analyze the taxation of transactions on the Rock, the establishment of legal entities and financial transactions related to these operations. The Tax Office considers that evaded hundreds of millions each year through transactions with the Rock. There are no official figures, but in Gibraltar is almost the same number of companies Population: 30,000 citizens and societies.
The British colony has a corporate tax rate of 10%, Spain 30%
The working group set up by the Treasury seeks to elucidate the mode of creation of companies established in Gibraltar, the movement of capital from Spain to the Rock, the share of firms and institutions on both sides of the Gate or company formation procedure in Spain participated by entrepreneurs fictitious residence in Gibraltar. Hacienda has detected that these entities are created primarily to maintain opacity property owners and real estate in Spain, as well as to facilitate its transmission without declaring it to the tax office.
"Gibraltar was a place that was curiously isolated from the rest of the world, a city made up of a rock, a little more than two square kilometers of urban area and an airport that began and ended at the sea." He described the Rock Larsson. In this small territory over which Spain has aspirations not doing anything wrong. It has a GDP of 1.050 billion pounds (1.230 billion euros) and a sustained annual growth of between 5% and 10% of GDP.
A Spanish authorities are uncomfortable with both the Gibraltar tax system as the ease of starting businesses and escape to the treasury. Last year we complained to the European Commission complained about the tax on the grounds that it is incompatible with Community tax legislation. This system, called the Gibraltar Income Act 2010, reduced the corporate tax from 22% to 10%. In addition, in Gibraltar only taxed on income earned on the Rock, profits earned abroad are exempt. This tax regime makes the Rock in a pole of attraction for area businesses fleeing Spain with a tax rate of 30%. Thus the number of companies which operate in Spain but taxed in the colony multiplies.
In Gibraltar there are almost as many corporate citizens, 30,000
The group created by the Treasury seeks to uncover the trust structures whose assets consist of property situated in Spain. These mats are made by companies "limited", residing in Gibraltar but property owners and property in Spain. There are 1,100 households in this situation in the vicinity of the Costa del Sol, according to official data. Another type of structure is formed by Spanish companies but whose shareholders or directors are located in Gibraltar. In this situation there are about 370 companies. In both cases these structures escape transfer tax payable by the opacity of the trusses.
"It ended up being a tax haven. It is an older model that has no place in modern Europe, even in the modern world. But we must also be alert to what is happening in places that are not tax havens, such as for non-resident companies in the UK or the Sicav in Spain, "he said a few weeks ago this newspaper Fabian Picardo, chief minister of the Rock .
Another concern of the Spanish authorities in cash movements through the Gate of Gibraltar. Hardly cash flow statements, however, Treasury operations known to exist millions. Of the 2,788 foreign trade operations with Gibraltar between 2007 and 2011, only eight are surveyed in the Rock. In total, there were transfers by 1.571 million, of which only 872,000 euros are ordered from Gibraltar. This reveals that the flow is from Spain to Gibraltar but not the reverse.
View of the Rock of Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar in the background. / Andres carrasco
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