Richard Seelmaecker, the opposition CDU party’s representative on the committee, said Germany’s chancellor and his successor as mayor, Peter Tschentscher, should resign. “They both have to resign,” he told German news agency DPA. The CumEx scheme, which was first uncovered in 2017, involved several banks and investors exploiting a loophole by quickly swapping company shares with each other on dividend day in order to claim multiple tax deductions in a single payment. The commission is investigating why local financial authorities in 2016 rejected an offer to refund €47m (£39m) in taxes from Hamburg bank Warburg for the CumEx transactions.
“There was no political influence”
“All this smells high and it simply cannot happen without political influence,” Mr Schilmaeker told the n-tv television network. Mr Scholz, who has already appeared before the committee once, has repeatedly rejected any suggestions he acted improperly. “Countless files have been studied, countless people have been heard. The result is always: There was no political influence,” Mr. Scholz told reporters recently. Steffen Hebestreit, the chancellor’s spokesman, said earlier this week that Mr Scholz, who was mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, had nothing to hide. However, a batch of emails recently seized from Mr Scholz’s former office manager could bring new evidence to light, according to several German media outlets.
title: “Olaf Solz Said To Resign Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-11” author: “John Bednorz”
Richard Seelmaecker, the opposition CDU party’s representative on the committee, said Germany’s chancellor and his successor as mayor, Peter Tschentscher, should resign. “They both have to resign,” he told German news agency DPA. The CumEx scheme, which was first uncovered in 2017, involved several banks and investors exploiting a loophole by quickly swapping company shares with each other on dividend day in order to claim multiple tax deductions in a single payment. The commission is investigating why local financial authorities in 2016 rejected an offer to refund €47m (£39m) in taxes from Hamburg bank Warburg for the CumEx transactions.
“There was no political influence”
“All this smells high and it simply cannot happen without political influence,” Mr Schilmaeker told the n-tv television network. Mr Scholz, who has already appeared before the committee once, has repeatedly rejected any suggestions he acted improperly. “Countless files have been studied, countless people have been heard. The result is always: There was no political influence,” Mr. Scholz told reporters recently. Steffen Hebestreit, the chancellor’s spokesman, said earlier this week that Mr Scholz, who was mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, had nothing to hide. However, a batch of emails recently seized from Mr Scholz’s former office manager could bring new evidence to light, according to several German media outlets.
title: “Olaf Solz Said To Resign Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-08” author: “Cynthia Felt”
Richard Seelmaecker, the opposition CDU party’s representative on the committee, said Germany’s chancellor and his successor as mayor, Peter Tschentscher, should resign. “They both have to resign,” he told German news agency DPA. The CumEx scheme, which was first uncovered in 2017, involved several banks and investors exploiting a loophole by quickly swapping company shares with each other on dividend day in order to claim multiple tax deductions in a single payment. The commission is investigating why local financial authorities in 2016 rejected an offer to refund €47m (£39m) in taxes from Hamburg bank Warburg for the CumEx transactions.
“There was no political influence”
“All this smells high and it simply cannot happen without political influence,” Mr Schilmaeker told the n-tv television network. Mr Scholz, who has already appeared before the committee once, has repeatedly rejected any suggestions he acted improperly. “Countless files have been studied, countless people have been heard. The result is always: There was no political influence,” Mr. Scholz told reporters recently. Steffen Hebestreit, the chancellor’s spokesman, said earlier this week that Mr Scholz, who was mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, had nothing to hide. However, a batch of emails recently seized from Mr Scholz’s former office manager could bring new evidence to light, according to several German media outlets.
title: “Olaf Solz Said To Resign Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-04” author: “Jean Babb”
Richard Seelmaecker, the opposition CDU party’s representative on the committee, said Germany’s chancellor and his successor as mayor, Peter Tschentscher, should resign. “They both have to resign,” he told German news agency DPA. The CumEx scheme, which was first uncovered in 2017, involved several banks and investors exploiting a loophole by quickly swapping company shares with each other on dividend day in order to claim multiple tax deductions in a single payment. The commission is investigating why local financial authorities in 2016 rejected an offer to refund €47m (£39m) in taxes from Hamburg bank Warburg for the CumEx transactions.
“There was no political influence”
“All this smells high and it simply cannot happen without political influence,” Mr Schilmaeker told the n-tv television network. Mr Scholz, who has already appeared before the committee once, has repeatedly rejected any suggestions he acted improperly. “Countless files have been studied, countless people have been heard. The result is always: There was no political influence,” Mr. Scholz told reporters recently. Steffen Hebestreit, the chancellor’s spokesman, said earlier this week that Mr Scholz, who was mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, had nothing to hide. However, a batch of emails recently seized from Mr Scholz’s former office manager could bring new evidence to light, according to several German media outlets.
