On Monday this week, billionaire Petter Stordalen had to appear in the Oslo district court because he refuses to pay a tax claim of 200 million.
As a result, many gained momentum and brought out a Stordalen quote from 2018:
– I feel that the tax burden in Norway is reasonable and that makes me think we should pay our taxes with pride, he told VG then.
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The case makes the financier Eirik Furuseth fly mad.
On his Facebook page he writes that:
“Petter A. Stordalen’s double standards are absolutely outrageous. First announced by setting a Norwegian record for recreational use of a private jet, at the same time with a pronounced strong commitment to the climate and the environment. But this really takes the cake. More people than I remember the “touching performance” at Skavlan, with descriptions of how naturally and happily he paid the tax, and how important it was that they contribute a lot?”
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In a long tax tirade against Stordalen, Furuseth also refers to one fresh commentary in Dagens Næringsliv (DN):
“To be so happy to pay tax, Petter Stordalen spends a surprising amount of time and effort to avoid it,” writes Bård Bjerkholt – and recalls that he has said that “Swiss refugees cheat.”
Shed tears at Skavlan
The commentator doesn’t mince words and says straight out that Stordalen engages in tax cheating.
Nettavisen has asked Stordalen’s defender, Kaare Andreas Shetelig, if Stordalen will comment on Bjerkholt’s comment.
Eirik Furuseth writes further in his post that
“There has been an endless series of those kinds of statements. The same tear-soaked scheme was put forward at Skavlan in connection with his companies receiving around 850 million in corona support from the state,” Furuseth points out.
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– Gets away extremely much cheaper than Røkke
– The reality is that Stordalen has paid minimal tax, both in relation to income and assets. On the wealth side, he gets away extremely much cheaper than what Olav Thon does, or Kjell Inge Røkke and John Fredriksen would do if they chose to stay in Norway, writes Furuseth.
While unlisted companies, such as Choice and Finansco, are valued at a small fraction of actual market value, the reality is completely different for listed companies.
“Stordalen bought a company where the big carrot was a massive carry-forward loss and paid-in share capital, and then used tax trickery to secure a tax-free dividend,” says Furuseth.
One week has been set aside for Stordalen’s case in court.
“This week, the man’s lawyers are in Oslo District Court. They must explain why the Tax Agency is wrong when it believes he should have paid dividend tax on the NOK 800 million he took out of the property company Strawberry Fields, in which Stordalen is the sole shareholder, in the period 2013 and 2021,” Bjerkholt points out.
Furuseth believes that it is appropriate that those with high incomes and values pay significantly higher taxes to the community than those who earn less.
Life and learning
– At the same time, I also believe that “temporary additional employer’s tax” is extremely harmful to the business world, that wealth tax distorts competition and discriminates against Norwegian owners, that dividend tax is too high, that corporation tax is too low and that the state is too big.
Nevertheless:
– There must be a connection between what you say and what you do. That is not the case with Petter Stordalen, and I hope the tax authorities win this one. Then Stordalen can take a trip to Skavlan and talk tearfully about its wonderful values, again.
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Social reformer Kjetil Rolness has also been keen on the keyboard:
“The biggest hypocrite in Norwegian business? The hotel king, who likes to say that he pays his taxes with joy and pride, uses rather intricate methods to avoid having to do just that.” writes Rolness on Facebook.
Stordalen’s defender, Kaare Andreas Shetelig, emphasized in his introduction on Monday that “it is Stordalen’s subjective motive that the court must decide on”.
Yes – that was it!
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