– The tax authorities have checked whether Eva Kristin Hansen satisfied the conditions for receiving tax-free commuter housing until she resigned after the election in 2017, and have confirmed that everything was in order and that she is correctly not taxed for this, says Hansen’s lawyer John Christian The fire to TV 2.
– It corresponds with the assessment I expressed when this case became public knowledge, he adds.
– Does not comment on individual cases
The review by the Tax Administration is limited to the period between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2020.
The control does not apply to other tax matters or other time intervals.
The tax authorities will not comment on any part of their work with the control, or the conclusions they draw.
“The tax administration has a duty of confidentiality and therefore the agency can neither comment on individual cases nor the control,” writes section manager Ole Vincent Jebsen in the Tax Administration to TV 2.
– COMMANDER HOUSING: Hansen got a commuter home in Oslo, while she was registered in Trondheim. Photo: Tom Rune Orset / TV 2
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– Deals with more than taxes
Although the Tax Administration has concluded in Hansen’s case, the inspection as a whole has not been completed, and there are also several bodies that are investigating the commuter housing complex.
In parallel with the Tax Administration’s review, the Office of the Auditor General has launched a separate investigation, and the police are still working on their investigation of the entire complex.
State Attorney Aud Gravås emphasizes that she does not want to comment on individual cases such as Hansen’s, but states on a general basis:
– The investigation order that has been given includes more than just the tax law. So if one assumes that there is no breach of any tax conditions, it does not necessarily mean that there is no basis for further investigation, Gravås says to TV 2.
Police attorney Kristin Ingeborg Rusdal says that, as usual, they wait for the tax law side of the investigation until they eventually receive a report from the Tax Administration.
– We have so far not received any review or statement from the Tax Administration in this case, Rusdal says to TV 2.
The police are investigating all the circumstances
In addition to this, Rusdal can state that the police are still in a phase where all circumstances related to the Storting’s commuter flats are mapped and investigated.
– It has been decided that individuals will be summoned for questioning on suspicion on the basis of what has emerged so far in the investigation. It can not be ruled out that more people will be summoned for questioning as suspects as the investigation progresses, Rusdal says to TV 2.
No one is currently charged in the case.
Went off after investigation began
Hansen resigned as President of the Storting on 18 November 2021, in light of the fact that the police were to investigate the commuter housing cases.
– I take it for granted that I am among them, Hansen told NTB that day.
It later became known that the police are investigating the entire complex and not exclusively individuals.
Facts: Hansen’s commuter housing case
From 2014 to 2017, Hansen received a commuter home in Oslo from the Storting, while she was registered in Trondheim.
In the autumn of 2014, she bought into the man’s house in Ski. It is 29 kilometers from the Storting.
She did not announce a move there until October 2017. It was two days after she was elected to the presidency. Only then did she give up the commuter home.
Representatives of the Storting who have commuter housing are obliged to inform about changes in their living situation. Hansen has several times signed that she is familiar with this, but has still not provided information about the home in Ski.
The Labor politician was most recently asked in 2017 if she commuted to a place other than where she was tax resident. She unnlot da to tell about the semi-detached house she had bought into.
Source: Adresseavisen / Aftenposten
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It was Adresseavisen who first revealed that Hansen rented a dormitory from Trond Giske and got a commuter home, at the same time as she owned a house with her husband 29 kilometers away from the Storting.
Hansen did not want to comment on this case on Thursday.
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