Company receives coronastøtte despite the case concerning tax evasion

the Company Cook Medical, which has two pending tax cases, has received 23,7 million dollars in salary, in may during the coronakrisen.

The type Information, among other things, has reviewed the group's financial statements.

The u.s. group's Danish company William Cook Europe ApS, which is located in Bjæverskov to the west of Køge, is one of the companies that have received the most money in compensation.

at the same time accusing Danish authorities of the company, which produces medical equipment, for having cheated the treasury of millions.

In all, the tax authorities raised the demand of more than 728 million crowns, as they believe the company has wrongfully withheld the Danish treasury over a number of years.

the Case is also notable because the Danish Parliament in april decided that the companies in the tax havens should not be part of the national stimulus packages during the coronakrisen.

one of the cases is all about, to Cook Medical in the years 2005 to 2008 that interest payments on intra-group loans to skattelylandet the Cayman Islands through shell companies in Sweden.

Christian Hallum, who is skattespecialist in the organization Oxfam, IBIS, denotes the above Information as a case with a whole strip of 'skatteproblematikker' with a 'tremendously large amount'.

He stresses, however, that it has not yet fallen a final judgment against Cook Medical.

In a written comment to the Information stresses Cook Medical press, that it is ultimately up to the courts to decide the cases.

the Unity skatteordfører Rune Lund are indignant over the matter.

- You take to the head. Companies usually try to pay as little as possible, now has tremendously busy with to ask for a large amount, when there are stimulus packages, he says to the Information.

general, rasmussen, Morten Bødskov (S) writes in a comment to the Information that he can't comment on the 'specific companies and their work'.

But he replies that hjælpepakkerne generally ensures that the compensation can not be ports tax-free abroad.