Denmark wants to recover $41 million from Kentucky-based private pension plans
Among the individuals sued is
Another defendant is
A 2015 consent judgment issued by a federal judge in
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Telephone numbers for Tew and Hofmeister have been disconnected and they could not be immediately reached for comment.
On Thursday the Customs and
The tax authority says the defendants claimed to own shares in Danish companies and submitted claims for refunds of dividend taxes.
Danish companies are required to withhold a 27 percent tax on dividends. That levy is refundable on dividends paid by Danish companies to
The Danish tax authority says that in
"The claimants did not own the shares that they claimed to own, they did not earn the dividends they claimed to have earned, and they were not entitled to the tax refunds they claimed," the suits say.
The tax authority says it was wrongly forced to pay out more than
Among the
Hofmeister, a former
Hofmeister once lived on a
The 2015 consent judgment required Hofmeister and Tew to repay
The director general of the Danish tax authority was fired in 2016 in the wake of the tax-fraud scandal and other problems with its dysfunctional collection system.
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