74-Year-Old Gets Suspended Sentence for €3.9 Million VAT Fraud

• A 74-year-old entrepreneur who committed large-scale VAT fraud for over six years caused about €3.9 million in tax damage.
• The court said the fraud was serious enough that an unconditional prison sentence of three years would normally be justified.
• The man also falsified tax-related documents to mislead clients and had previously been punished for forgery, but kept offending.
• He received only a suspended prison sentence because the case took almost 10 years, and the court found the legal process had been unreasonably delayed.

Source: accountancyvanmorgen.nl

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