Bouvrie speaks out about his tax fraud arrest
Thursday 11 March 2010
Society interior designer Jan des Bouvrie told a news conference on Thursday afternoon his arrest on tax fraud charges centres on the value added tax levied over an €80,000 bill which was addressed to the wrong company due to a typing error.
The recipients of the bill wrongly deducted the value added tax as a business expense, but the bill related to work on a private house, Des Bouvrie said.
The designer and tv presenter, who is 67, said he had been arrested at his home in Naarden at 7am on Tuesday morning by heavily-armed agents from the tax evasion investigation department FIOD. He was released on Wednesday evening.
'I have been questioned about this bill for two days and three hours,' he told reporters.
According to the Telegraaf, the designer submitted bills for hundreds of thousands of euros worth of work to the Kroon Group in Zeist. But in fact, the work was carried out on owner Evert Kroon's private home in France and his €6.5m yacht, the paper says.
The trick allowed Kroon to deduct value added tax on the work on his private home and reduce his property group's corporate tax liabilities. In total, the fraud has cost the taxpayer €1.5m, the paper says.
Kroon and another staffer from the Kroon Group are still in custody.
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Friday: Sunny spells and max 19 º with showers possible in far north. A sunny, dry weekend
to be honest
i've not trusted this man for several years. I bougth a set oif outdoor lamps from Gama, designed by him and I was assured that they came from a 'limited edition'. However after the first batch sold out the same lamps kept reappearing in Gama for several years.
I reckon a designer who can lie about that can lie about his tax.
By Jamie Anderson | March 11, 2010 4:10 PM