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1. First and foremost it is important that Danes living abroad, when visiting Denmark realize, that IN DENMARK THERE IS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN GOING ON AGAINST DANES WHO LIVE ABROAD. The Danish Authorities have to some extent managed to give a great number of Danes the impression, that those fellow countrymen who have settled abroad are all tax runaways, and it does not matter whether they as poor students emigrated a generation ago like I did, nor whether, as in my case at the time of emigrating they were possessing nothing more than the clothes they were wearing and a single ticket on a migrant ship. Neither is it of any consequence whether they have left Denmark for health, or business reasons, the same yardstick is applied as for those who have left Denmark in order to save on tax.

2. I am convinced that THERE ARE PEOPLE IN DENMARK WHO BY THE DANISH INLAND REVENUE ARE EMPLOYED AND ESPECIALLY TRAINED TO FERRET OUT DANISH EXPATRIATES VISITING THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY, AND IT IS DONE IN ORDER TO HAVE THEM ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH TAX EVASION. THE PURPOSE OF THE EXERCISE IS TO ROB THEM OF AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE. The more money such specially trained people can procure for the Danish municipalities and state by wresting millions from unsuspecting Danish visitors from abroad, the better they are doing their job, and the sooner they will gain promotion. Let me briefly refer to leading articles in the Danish press the 6th of December 1995. The article sent to me by a friend of mine in Copenhagen, and which I am translating here, was reported as follows:

PERSONAL REWARDS AS PERFORMANCE PAY TO DANISH TAX CHIEFS!
In leading articles in the Danish newspapers on the 6th December 1995, it is reported that chiefs in the system of taxation have a personal economic interest in running court cases against the taxpayers. If the taxation authorities win then it means more money in the pay packets to the chiefs in the country’s 14 inland revenue divisions. The newspapers are especially emphasizing the proceedings of a case, where the taxation department repeatedly lost, but still continued to find new possibilities for taking out court cases against the same company. The chief for the said taxation department had at the same time suggested to the involved municipalities, that the reward from an eventually won case should be shared amongst them.

Above mentioned reward will without doubt urge unscrupulous taxation chiefs to enrich themselves when they see a chance for a reward, even if it means attacking honest and law abiding persons.
The man from the state inland revenue with whom I was unfortunate enough to come into contact, was one of the really skillful. During most of the drive from Copenhagen to Kosoer, whilst I was in the police car, he entertained the police by telling them of the many native Danes living abroad he has caught when they visit Denmark, and how many millions they had been sentenced to pay in taxes and fines.

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