To read their press release, more than taxpayers are benefactors of the Treasury who, cyclically, pay astronomical figures to the state. Like the billion poured to close the dispute on the “move” in Holland
“No admission, not even silent.” The press release with which the Elkann let us know they have paid 175 million euros to the tax authorities to close the dispute born from the issue of inheritance, is very clear: they do not consider themselves responsible for anything. It’s not new. Even when, in February 2022, they paid 950 million to the tax authorities to close the dispute born from the movement of the company to Holland, they were equally clear: the payment, they wrote, “cannot be interpreted as an acceptance, even partial, of the thesis of the Revenue Agency”. From which, evidently, the lawyers of the lawyer have become benefactors of the Italian eratory are deduced. From time to time, without any reason, they take a pack of millions and turn them into the coffers of our state. What are we waiting for to thank them for such generosity?
We, who are country guys and we have never brought the clock above the cuff, obviously we believe in it. Blindly. We believe that the Elkann Today they pour 175 million to the tax authorities for the same reason why 950 million had paid three years ago: pure patriotic spirit. Love of the gabelles. Insane passion for the Revenue Agency. And we are convinced that as three years ago the accusations on the transfer of the headquarters to the Netherlands had nothing to do with it (one way not to pay taxes, they said certain gossips), so today, in the same way, the accusations of the Turin Prosecutor’s Office have nothing to do with some months investigating the tax evasion linked to the affair of the inheritance. The Corriere della Sera He writes that mom Margherita, who had denounced them, is celebrating. But it is probably a pure coincidence. A randomness.
There is no “no admission”, we repeat it, “not even silent or partial of the validity of the dispute”. The 175 million are paid like this, for love patio, not because one of the managers of the money of Lambs, Siegfried Maronpresented a list of Liechtenstein companies in which 600 million euros of the lawyer would be kept. Not because according to the complaint of the lawyer’s daughter, Margherita, the funds hidden outside the national borders could be many more. Not because they would reach, second The espressoabout two billion euros, concentrated above all in two Trusts at the Bahamas (The Providente and The Providence II), not to mention the treasures to the Virgin Islands (sixteen companies), Hong Kong and Singapore on which the Turin Prosecutor’s Office investigates. All this has nothing to do with it. The 175 million euros were paid for pure spirit of sacrifice. In short, a form of fiscal cylic. A auto-flagellation without a reason.
Even the “vademecum of the fraud” which would have been developed by Jaki and his brothers to try not to pay taxes on the inheritance has nothing to do with the maxi payment of the same. Remember? According to the magistrates of Turin when Nonna Marella died in 2019, the three young people Elkann received 170 million precious, paintings and jewels, including a picture of Monet from 17.5 million euros, a Andy Warhol from 10 million, three paintings of Francis Bacon From 12 million, a ring of Bulgari of 2.5 million euros and a couple of earrings (gone to Geneva) who alone are worth 78 million euros. And, always according to the magistrates, precisely on that occasion the three would have developed the aforementioned “vademecum of the fraud”: in practice they would invent fake letters to show that the grandmother had given them the precious while she was still alive, so as not to have to pay for succession taxes. All false, according to the judiciary. All designed to escape the tax authorities. But this is clear, it has nothing to do with the 175 million paid today by Elkann. It was not what the three worries Elkann. Their only concern is to carry around those earrings of 78 million euros: do you want to put if they fall into a manhole?
And obviously the decision to pay a substantial contribution to the Treasury has nothing to do with it, but just nothing, not even with the suspicion that Grandma Marella deduced the tax authorities, avoiding denouncing the “pension” who passed her daughter (600,000 euros per month): according to the accusations of Margherita and the investigations of the prosecutor, Marella pretended to be resident in Switzerland while in reality he was elsewhere, in his villas of Turin and Marrakech. But this has nothing to do with it. Just as the disappeared paintings have nothing to do with, the masterpieces hidden in the cellar, the doubt that the much -sized passion of the lawyer for art was actually hiding much less noble intent than the apparent ones: all suspicions raised by the daughter of Donna Marella, Margherita, as well as the mother of the Elkannwho kicked off the investigations of the magistrates, publicly catching the accusations of the children (“he mistreated us when we were children”). A not exactly dignified show that certainly cannot be canceled by those 175 million euros, also because, as has been said, that money has nothing to do with the accusations of the Prosecutor.
Now they say that Jaki Elkannalthough nothing has to do with all this, he could ask, always by virtue of his well -known patriotic spirit, to be able to carry out socially useful works. We cheer cheering because it does it. Meanwhile, because it would finally do something useful, moreover socially. And then because they call it “test”. And who knows that, he tries after testing, he cannot try to tell the truth for once.
