the Tax authorities are sending in these days letters out to 485,000 japanese citizens, who are forgiven the debt to the public for a total of 5.8 billion kroner.
It writes Politiken.
the Citizens get to know, that the whole or parts of their debt to the public is the main street.
– Gældsstyrelsen has extraordinary written off 6147,94 dollars of your debt. This means that you no longer owe the amount, type Gældsstyrelsen in one of the many letters, which, with Parliamentary blessing is sent out in these weeks.
It is especially people with low incomes, among other things, benefit claimants and recipients of anticipatory pension, which will get ironed their debt.
This is a recognition that they would in any case have difficulty getting paid their bills.
the Scheme includes older debts with low value, where the authorities estimate that the cost of recovering the debt will exceed the debt’s real value.
The big gældsnedskrivning happens as a part of the clearing work that needs to get recovery of the public debt back on track.
the Recovery has been affected by the data problems and fejlopkrævninger the last three years.
It is due to the tax authorities in september 2015 had to scrap the digital system for recovery EFI.
the Director of Gældsstyrelsen, Lars Nordahl, do not believe that debt cancellation will get the other to drop the payment of the unpaid togbøder, license, skatteregninger and other debts to the public.
– the period of Limitation is extended to 2021, so the debt does not disappear. That runs, on the contrary, interest rates on. It’s a pretty important message, if anyone thinks that they can evade the debt, he says to Politiken.
the Vice-president of the elected state auditors, Klaus Frandsen (R), fearing, however, that the waiver can have an impact.
He points out that people can speculate in a tax system that by the debt of the vast minority who do not pay their bills.
– I am concerned about the message it sends to other people that you by debt. So one can think that if you just leave be paying, so it will probably go, says Klaus Frandsen to Ritzau.
