News February 24, 2022
Last update February 25, 2022, 09:15
Weeks ago, the House of Representatives asked State Secretary Marnix van Rij (Finance) to clarify the way in which the Tax and Customs Administration used to select for years in fraud investigations. nationality and appearance† On Thursday, just as the world was holding its breath over the invasion of Ukraine, the tax authorities released the examples. According to newspaper Trouw it concerns, among other things:
A study into the deduction of gifts in the tax return, which only looked at citizens with a Turkish or Moroccan (second) nationality. The extra control of deduction of healthcare costs for surnames ending in -ic. Or check visits to starting entrepreneurs, but only with an immigrant background.
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Van Rij calls it “very serious” that the tax authorities did not act “in an honest, unbiased way”. The disclosed examples show how much the Tax and Customs Administration had started the hunt for anyone with a non-Dutch name.
Tax advisers were scrutinized if they had many immigrant clients. In Maastricht, start-up companies received extra attention when it came to immigrant entrepreneurs. And in Breda someone was investigated who lived with ‘all immigrant family names’.
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Earlier this week it was announced that the union of employees at the Tax and Customs Administration file a report against the program BOOS (BNNVARA), because presenter Tim Hoffman wants to know “which officials are responsible for racism”.
The former tax consultant Van Rij also came on Monday in the news† He has decided to wait another year before plugging a notorious tax leak. Rich private individuals and family funds mainly use the tax avoidance route.
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