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OOOhhhh - BREAKING NEWS!!


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Canadian tax authorities recover C$82 million from Kitco in fraud case

 

Revenu Quebec Concludes a Secret Agreement with a Gold Merchant

From The Journal of Montreal
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

 

Revenu Quebec has just concluded a secret agreement with the Montreal firm Metaux Kitco, accused of multi-million-dollar tax evasion in the gold sector.

Revenu Quebec argued that Kitco owed it at least C$284 million for claiming and obtaining tax refunds to which the company was not entitled. According to publicly available information, the taxman ultimately receive only $50 million of this amount.

According to the government agency, Kitco produced false invoices to carry out "artificial transactions" making it possible to transform pure gold (zero-rated) into scrap gold (taxable), then again into pure gold (zero-rated).

 

Kitco's business partners include security firms GardaWorld and G4S, as well as the Royal Canadian Mint, a federal Crown corporation, to which Kitco entrusts the refining of its scrap gold. Nothing indicates that these entities participated in the scheme denounced by the tax authorities.

Revenu Quebec requested that a confidentiality clause be added to the agreement to prevent its disclosure. In a document filed in court, however, it was stated that the agency is entitled to C$49.9 million as "full and final payment" for its claim of C$284 million.

Revenue Canada, for its part, will receive $ 31.7 million. The total of C$81.7 million represents the amount that the tax authorities had withheld from tax-refund claims submitted by Kitco.

The agreement will allow Kitco to get out of the judicial restructuring process in which the company was placed in 2011 in reaction to the notices of assessment filed by Revenu Quebec. The Superior Court is to ratify the agreement next month.

Revenu Quebec refused to answer questions from the Journal yesterday, except to indicate that "the Court of Quebec remains seized of criminal files" concerning Metaux Kitco and its founding president, Bart Kitner. According to spokesperson Geneviève Laurier, procedures must resume on May 24.

However, a document filed in court stipulates that the agreement concluded with the taxman "settles" all disputes with Kitco, including "criminal offenses."

The taxman demanded fines totaling more than $454 million from Kitco and Mr. Kitner as well as a prison sentence for the latter.

Since 2011 the amount of gold held by Kitco has decreased by 20 percent. Despite everything the company still has 77,000 ounces of this precious metal for a market value of C$127 million, accounting firm Richter told the court.

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12 minutes ago, HerefordBullyun said:

Hope the comment breaking news is tounge in cheek when it's dated 2018.

 -- Published: Thursday, 2 July 2020 | Print  | 2 Comments 

 

This news report, translated from the original French, is 2 years old but seems to have escaped notice outside Quebec.

 

 

But that just goes to show - how this stuff - when it suits - is kept under wraps!

from here - -> > http://news.goldseek.com/GATA/1593681364.php

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1 minute ago, 5huggy said:

 -- Published: Thursday, 2 July 2020 | Print  | 2 Comments 

 

This news report, translated from the original French, is 2 years old but seems to have escaped notice outside Quebec.

 

 

But that just goes to show - how this stuff - when it suits - is kept under wraps!

from here - -> > http://news.goldseek.com/GATA/1593681364.php

Ah thank you kind sir. I stand  corrected  said the man in the orthopaedic shoes. My French is pretty  mange tout also! 😂😂😂😂

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Just now, HerefordBullyun said:

Ah thank you kind sir. I stand  corrected  said the man in the orthopaedic shoes. My French is pretty  mange tout also! 😂😂😂😂

OOO LA LA! 

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