The managing director of a Salzburg beverage trading company, a high-ranking employee and the company itself were sentenced to heavy fines at the Salzburg Regional Court on Wednesday for contributing to tax evasion. The boss received a partially conditional fine of 1.25 million euros. From 2009 to 2018, he and the employee are said to have enabled around 15 innkeepers to evade taxes of around 4.2 million euros, partly through black sales.
Fines against beverage dealers partly legally binding
The EUR 1.25 million fine against the head of the drinks trading company and the EUR 600,000 fine against the employee are already final. The fine of 1.2 million euros under the Association Responsibility Act is not final. Half of all fines were conditionally checked, explained the spokesman for the Salzburg regional court, Peter Egger.
Most of the accused confessed
The two men mostly confessed. They are said to have instructed employees to only partially deliver drinks ordered by innkeepers with an invoice and to collect part of them in cash, i.e. on the black. The majority of these restaurateurs, who run restaurants and apres-ski bars, have already been convicted of tax evasion.
(Those: APA)
