Mr Gou or the US "tax gate" was fined a maximum of 10 billion dollars

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Gou Informer IRS
A successful person with strong Taiwan; A heroes who often reports gossip headlines.  A charity with a hundreds of millions of-dollar year in which its companies are constantly rumoured to have "sweatshops".  One weeks, the collection of a variety of "image" in one of Taiwan's second largest millionaire, Gou, suddenly plunged into a "tax evasion door."  local time in the early morning of July 27, our correspondent contacted the IRS to report a tax to the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau, one of several informants.  She provided the reporter with a detailed report.  It is noteworthy that the whistleblower did not report the Hon Hai Group's tax evasion, but reported Gou and his family's tax evasion. According to the whistleblower, the report has been accepted by the IRS. And the attorney for the case, Paul Scott, has been verbally notified by the IRS of the case number--29-80513.  The case has a total of three informants, the first informant with U.S. citizenship, in line with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on the status of informants. This reporter has in the local time July 24 to the IRS public Affairs Department manager Dean.patterson inquires the case number. But by the end of the deadline, the IRS has not replied to reporters whether the case is true, and whether Mr Gou is a participant in a tax evasion case.  The reporter called the lawyer Paul Scott to inquire, but the lawyer's phone message announced that the United States will not return to the Office 27th local time.  The United States Court documentation system, which was queried by reporters, has no documentation on the case, although there are a number of cases concerning Yu Honghai and Foxconn.  In other words, as the central figure in the case, Mr Gou is still unable to confirm whether it is a suspect in a tax evasion case or a convicted criminal. However, there are still a lot of "hot" stories about Mr Gou in the news.  There are also a lot of doubts, need more facts to be clarified in the future.  This newspaper only cited information for readers to understand the current case between the two sides of the dispute. Is Taiwan's second-largest millionaire, Terry Gou, a U.S. citizen? According to reports, 1984, Foxconn International registered in Minnesota.  The company is still operating now.  Mr Gou's brother, Guo Tai, became a registered Hon Hai Technology in 1999.  2002 Fuji Kang Technology registered in California State.  As early as 1988, Mr. Gou had emigrated to the United States as well as a priority investment in immigration to the United States, according to a manager at a Foxconn Shenzhen plant that was contacted by a whistleblower. By EB-5 visas through the United States (which creates employment by absorbing investment migrants), Guo can benefit from the visa: If the investment project creates 10 jobs, the project applicant can obtain a limited permanent resident of two years.  If two years later, the investment project still exists, 10 employees are still employed, visa applicants can apply for permanent residents and eventually become American citizens. The whistleblower claimed that Mr. Gou had the American Social Security number (four digits to protect his privacy)625-30-XXXX), but at the same time has the Taiwan identity card number: A10230xxxx Another evidence is that, according to one of the informants contacted by another Fuji Kanggou, Gou has a foreign passport, so it is convenient to travel around.  Foxconn's factory in the Czech Republic is where he often goes. Czech law stipulates that if you want to become a company leader in the Czech Republic, you must hold a national passport from a certain country in the EU, or the United States, or other agreements with the Czech Republic. Mr. Gou is one of the directors and head of his company in the Czech Republic. However, no similar agreement has been signed with the Czech Republic in Taiwan.  If Mr Gou goes to the Czech Republic with a Taiwanese passport, he will not be able to open a Czech company.  The other two evidences are that Guo's deceased legal wife, Lin Shu, has 626-20-xxxx's American social Security number, the whistleblower said. Gou's son (English name Jeffery Terry) emigrated to the United States since he was 12 years old.  Gou's daughter Guo Xiaoling (Shirley Terry) also has the U.S. Social Security number 609-36-xxxx.  According to the informer, Gou's two brothers, Guo Taicheng and Guo Tai, also had the U.S. social Security number respectively. [Page] However, according to the reporter verified that the social Security number does not confirm that the person has United States citizenship, only to prove that he has long lived in the United States.  Therefore, it is not yet confirmed whether the Lin Shuru and Guo Taicheng are of American nationality. According to the U.S. tax code irc§862 (at), if the Guo family members have U.S. citizenship, or have dual nationality, or have permanent residency in the United States (not naturalized), their global income, is the IRS tax scope.  Even if the Guo family does not have U.S. citizenship and permanent residency, its income from trade and any business activities in the United States is also taxed. In 1974, Mr. Gou established Hon Hai Precision Co., HON HAI PRECISION, to establish a capital of NT $500,000, according to Mr. Gou's wealth Informer. 1991 Hon Hai listed.  The listing price is 40 NT per share. According to Forbes 2007, Mr Gou has a 30% stake in Hon Hai.  Guo is ranked as the 142th richest man in the world.  Mr Gou's brother, Guo Taiqiang, owns the Foxconn International (FOXCONN Analysys), which is publicly traded in Hong Kong. Hon Hai's revenues in 2006 amounted to $40 billion trillion.  Hon Hai is located in the United States, California, Nevada State, Texas State, Delaware State, New Jersey have branches. As the controller of the Hon Hai System, according to Hon Hai's annual report, Mr. Gou earned 9.02 million NT dollars in 2006 as chairman and CEO. Up to 49.29 million NT dollars in 2004.  In 2001-2006, Mr Gou earned a total income of approximately $2.35 million trillion. According to Hon Hai 19For 95-2007 years, Mr. Gou also sold several of his holdings of Hon Hai shares, totaling 550 million dollars.  There are also Hon Hai Securities and cash rewards issued as bonuses and stock dividends. In 1999-2005, Mr. Gou's cash from Hon Hai amounted to $3.2 billion trillion, according to public information compiled by informants. There are 195 million stocks in the securities sector.  The two items add up to about 3.8 billion dollars.  According to the whistleblower, unlike Taiwan law, the IRS is taxed on the basis of the market value of the stock rather than the face value. According to Taiwanese regional media reports, Mr Gou's annual sale of Hon Hai shares was claimed to be tax.  And the sales amount is equivalent to the tax he was going to pay. According to the whistleblower, the Taiwan area is taxed only on the par (NT $10) per share of Hon Hai, which is a very low tax.  The IRS will be taxed at 10-30 times the value of the tax in Taiwan. As a result, Mr Gou's cash in the sale of his shares apparently not two of its taxes to the Taiwan region and the US. So there is the possibility of tax evasion.  That is to say, the informer believes that even if he paid 550 million of dollars for the sale of securities over the years, he not the double taxation of Taiwan and the US over its $3.8 billion trillion income. The US tax law stipulates that dividends on securities are not taxed, but it is not tax-free for Mr Gou to obtain these securities without paying a penny, the whistleblower said.  It is therefore also a tax evasion. But this logical inference is obviously a leap, failing to exclude Guo from paying taxes in cash.  Even the lawyer who accepts the case also instructions the Informer to supplement the evidence separately. The informer also cited the income of other people in the family. The informant said Mr. Gou's deceased wife, Lin Shuru, had not been reported dead in the United States. The biggest driving benefit, she says, is that Mr Gou's property with Lin Shuru does not need to declare a source of property income and pay taxes on the U.S. estate. Under the name of Lin, there are 4 houses in Taiwan.  Lin is also one of Hon Hai executives, in 1994-2004, a total of 94 million dollars from the Hon Hai received income. According to the whistleblower, if Lin is American or complies with the U.S. tax law, property and income are also global income, and taxes are also required.  But in terms of cash money from the sale of the shares, she speculated that Lin, like Mr Gou, did not pay taxes to the IRS.  The whistleblower also cited the income of several of his close relatives and alleged that the members of the Kwok family, like Mr. Gou, had a huge business presence in the United States, but were most likely not paying taxes to the IRS, which constituted tax evasion. According to our correspondent to find information, Hon Hai also has a record in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, from 1998 to 2002, Hon Hai's subsidiary in New Jersey set up E-star to staff a large number of shares as a bonus, but did not refer to the CPA company PwC.  Also did not pay the IRS social Security and health care tax, a total of 3.644 million U.S. dollars. 2007, E-star to the guilty partyFormula (plea guilty) to settle the case.  The verdict, E-star has paid a fine of 32 million U.S. dollars, will pay a total of 99 million U.S. dollars fine, visible to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service punishment.  According to the U.S. Internal Revenue Act, the 140%-280% class will be fined for tax evasion, so the 1994-2007 earnings of Mr Gou will likely be fined 3 billion to 10 billion dollars. Our correspondent calls Hon Hai Technology Group spokesman Ding-an to verify the nationality of Mr. Gou and whether he has a record of paying taxes to the IRS. To the deadline, no official reply from the Hon Hai Group spokesperson was received.
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