Arrests in window cleaning tax fraud. Tuesday 08 April 2008:
Police arrested 29 people on Tuesday in connection with an investigation by the tax office into possible tax fraud and extortion and bribery in the window cleaning business. According to the Telegraaf, this follows a major investigation by tax investigators into the way independent operators are forced into paying a percentage of their income to other window cleaners for permission to clean the windows in 'their' streets. During Tuesday's arrests guns, ammunition, cars, money and paperwork was seized, says the paper. Several marijuana plantations were also discovered and homes and business premises searched. In total, 370 officials were involved in the investigation.
© DutchNews.nl
The tax office traditionally cracks down on certain professions - for example, window cleaners or taxi drivers - by trawling through computer records to see if their income looks suspicious. Such processes have been made easier with a new “web robot” called Xenon. The Revenue says that Xenon “identifies websites of interest to us and collects information from the internet to assist with our inquiries”. In the most serious cases, the taxman is also able to bug people's homes and intercept their telephone calls, e-mails and letters. These powers were granted this month after an extension of the Serious Crime Act. From The Times, March 6, 2008. UK
Police arrested 29 people on Tuesday in connection with an investigation by the tax office into possible tax fraud and extortion and bribery in the window cleaning business. According to the Telegraaf, this follows a major investigation by tax investigators into the way independent operators are forced into paying a percentage of their income to other window cleaners for permission to clean the windows in 'their' streets. During Tuesday's arrests guns, ammunition, cars, money and paperwork was seized, says the paper. Several marijuana plantations were also discovered and homes and business premises searched. In total, 370 officials were involved in the investigation.
© DutchNews.nl
The tax office traditionally cracks down on certain professions - for example, window cleaners or taxi drivers - by trawling through computer records to see if their income looks suspicious. Such processes have been made easier with a new “web robot” called Xenon. The Revenue says that Xenon “identifies websites of interest to us and collects information from the internet to assist with our inquiries”. In the most serious cases, the taxman is also able to bug people's homes and intercept their telephone calls, e-mails and letters. These powers were granted this month after an extension of the Serious Crime Act. From The Times, March 6, 2008. UK
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