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Bitcoin Fanatiske Michael Saylor sagsøgt af Washington, DC, justitsminister for skattesvig
Washington DC justitsminister Karl Racine sagsøger business intelligence-firmaet MicroStrategy og dets grundlægger, Michael Saylor, for at have unddraget skat i de over ti år, han har boet i distriktet.
Michael Saylor står over for retssag om skattesvig
En af bitcoin’s biggest proponents and investors has found himself in legal hot water.
Karl Racine, statsadvokaten for District of Columbia i USA, annoncerede Onsdag, at han rejser tiltale mod Michael Saylor og hans firma MicroStrategy for påstået skattesvig.
NYT: I dag sagsøger vi Michael Saylor – en tech-milliardær, der har boet i distriktet i mere end et årti, men aldrig har betalt nogen DC-indkomstskat – for skattesvig.
— AG Karl A. Racine (@AGKarlRacine) August 31, 2022The Attorney General claims Saylor has never paid any income taxes in DC in the more than ten years he has lived there. MicroStrategy, the public company with the most significant bitcoin treasury, has supposedly helped Saylor dodge the taxes “he legally owes on hundreds of millions of dollars he’s earned while living in DC.”
Racines kontor anklager Saylor for at have brugt en "udførlig ordning" for at undgå at betale mere end $25 millioner i skat fra 2014 til 2020, en pressemeddelelse reads. Saylor claimed to be a Florida or Virginia resident, but he was in fact living in DC for at least 183 days per year — which is the minimum limit to be a statutory resident. Racine believes MicroStrategy conspired to facilitate the scheme, including filing erroneous W-2s with the tech billionaire’s Florida address listed instead of his DC home.
Mellem de ubetalte skatter og bøder anslår DC Attorney General's Office, at Saylor og MicroStrategy kan hoste op med mere end $100 millioner.
Dette markerer især den første retssag, som Attorney General anlægger i henhold til Washingtons nyligt ændrede False Claims Act, som opfordrer whistleblowere til at rapportere skatteunddragere.
"Med denne retssag gør vi beboere og arbejdsgivere opmærksomme på, at hvis du nyder alle fordelene ved at bo i vores store by, mens du nægter at betale din rimelige andel i skat, vil vi holde dig ansvarlig," Racine sagde i et opfølgende tweet.
Dette er ikke MicroStrategy og Saylors første indkøring i loven. I 2000, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejste sigtelser for bedrageri mod firmaet for at have behandlet økonomiske optegnelser i to år.
Saylor for nylig trådte tilbage som administrerende direktør for MicroStrategy but remained chairman of the board of directors to focus on the company’s bitcoin acquisition strategies. Former MicroStrategy president Phong Le replaced Saylor as CEO.
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