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Finnish companies using offshore tax havens have faced strong condemnation from the country’s politicians since Yle television program MOT revealed the secret Luxembourg tax arrangements used by companies like packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki and construction firm SRV.
“The only reason for these companies to be in Luxembourg is tax avoidance,” said former British tax inspector Richard Brooks, who analyzed the secret tax agreements of the Finnish companies.
SRV has won several public tenders and the company, among other projects, is building a new children’s hospital in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Part of this hospital is financed by private funders, because the state is not willing to finance it completely by public means.
SRV’s tax agreement describes the company’s Russian investments through subsidiaries in Luxembourg and Cyprus. SRV has built and invested in shopping malls and business centers in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
“Cyprus has a very favorable tax agreement with Russia that allows the money, the rental income, all the gains on the property to come out tax free,” Brooks explained to MOT.
“And they inserted a Luxembourg company, which allows the money to come from the Cyprus’ company directly to Finland, without picking up a tax bill in Finland.”
The founder, biggest shareholder, and president of the board of SRV is Ilpo Kokkila. Kokkila also happens to be president of the powerful Confederation of Finnish Industries, a lobby group with 16,000 member companies and the main representative of employers in labor negotiations with the trade unions. He refused to give an interview to MOT.
MP Jukka Kärnä (Social Democratic Party) said that the credibility of the Confederation of Finnish Industries had collapsed after the MOT program revealed SRV’s and Kokkila’s apparent connection to tax avoidance.
“SRV has won several public tenders. In the future we shouldn’t let companies that avoid taxes in Finland to win public tenders,” Kärnä said.
Luepa lissää:
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/finnish-mps-slam-industry-boss-luxleaks-reaction
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/06/18/645102/0/en/SRV-selected-to-build-New-Children-s-Hospital.html
http://www.rakennuslehti.fi/2015/08/fennovoiman-kotimainen-omistus-nousee-65-prosenttiin-srv-omistajaksi-ja-projektinjohtoon
Finnish companies using offshore tax havens have faced strong condemnation from the country’s politicians since Yle television program MOT revealed the secret Luxembourg tax arrangements used by companies like packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki and construction firm SRV.
“The only reason for these companies to be in Luxembourg is tax avoidance,” said former British tax inspector Richard Brooks, who analyzed the secret tax agreements of the Finnish companies.
SRV has won several public tenders and the company, among other projects, is building a new children’s hospital in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Part of this hospital is financed by private funders, because the state is not willing to finance it completely by public means.
SRV’s tax agreement describes the company’s Russian investments through subsidiaries in Luxembourg and Cyprus. SRV has built and invested in shopping malls and business centers in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
“Cyprus has a very favorable tax agreement with Russia that allows the money, the rental income, all the gains on the property to come out tax free,” Brooks explained to MOT.
“And they inserted a Luxembourg company, which allows the money to come from the Cyprus’ company directly to Finland, without picking up a tax bill in Finland.”
The founder, biggest shareholder, and president of the board of SRV is Ilpo Kokkila. Kokkila also happens to be president of the powerful Confederation of Finnish Industries, a lobby group with 16,000 member companies and the main representative of employers in labor negotiations with the trade unions. He refused to give an interview to MOT.
MP Jukka Kärnä (Social Democratic Party) said that the credibility of the Confederation of Finnish Industries had collapsed after the MOT program revealed SRV’s and Kokkila’s apparent connection to tax avoidance.
“SRV has won several public tenders. In the future we shouldn’t let companies that avoid taxes in Finland to win public tenders,” Kärnä said.
Luepa lissää:
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/finnish-mps-slam-industry-boss-luxleaks-reaction
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/06/18/645102/0/en/SRV-selected-to-build-New-Children-s-Hospital.html
http://www.rakennuslehti.fi/2015/08/fennovoiman-kotimainen-omistus-nousee-65-prosenttiin-srv-omistajaksi-ja-projektinjohtoon
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Vanhimmat
Pääosassa edellä olevan SRV:n pääomistaja Ilpo Kokkila on Elinkeinoelämän keskusliiton EK:n vuonna 2014 eläkkelle jäänyt puheenjohtaja.