On Blackadders question:
It is possible, if a person is engaged in an honorary office or does a lot for charity, that he will get a lower sentence.
Then there is the judgement by the highest court, that if the amount in question is over 1 Million, you can't just pay, but have to stay in prison and the sentence won't be suspended for probation. But that is not a law, but only a recommendation by the highest court.
If you on your own, after years, go to the "police" and say you did tax fraud and you will give the court all documents and name the right sum of the not payed taxes and your income, you get no sentence at all. You just have to pay the taxes for the years in question plus 6% for every year.
If you are lucky and have waited long enough and then tell the "police" you will not get any trial and no sentence will be spoken out.
If you do not tell on your own and investigation sees your tax fraud, you will go to prison + pay the taxes.
That is the case with Honess.
Timeline:
Magazine "Stern" is investigating that there might be tax fraud by Hoeness.
Hoeness notices that and in two nights tells his advocate to help him, declare !on his own! that he has committed tax fraud. It will count, if you name every amount of money and give the papers and documents for it, before investigation starts. (It was also said, that the minister of finance or the minister president had given him a hint, that they might soon investigate).
This they did, but the investigators had also heard of the "Stern" research and filed an investigation on their own.
The prosecutor looked through the filed self-declaration and decied, that it is maybe(!) to late and that it must be missing some details.
Now Hoeness people say, no one can get all documents together in two nights, please have mercy.
Now the court had to decide, what they should think about that.
Trial began on monday.
Honess declares that besides the 3,5Million he had admitted, that there are actually 18,5million in sum. (As a self defense saying, that they must see that he is really faithfully honest, this time and that they should think about that, because now the prosecutors do not have to find that on their own).
He also lamented, that he had spent 5million for charity and has payed 50million taxes in Germany anyway. (Thinking, that might save his butt). Mind, if your earn 150.000/year, you have to pay 42% for everything over that. But you can declare all sorts of losses (the money you spent for fuel on your way to your job, or if you buy a PC for your home office, etc. so no one actually pays that.) So, if he has payed 50million taxes in Germany, you can imagine how much he must have earned, to still have money he did not declared.
Then it was discovered, that he had claimed a loss of 120million when he did his annual tax declaration (the one he really did and the ta office knew about) in Germany. At the same time he had declared a 120million earnings in Switzerland.
This morning the prosecutor said, that she found that on top of the 3,5million he had declared initially, when he was caught, that on top of that it is not 15million, as he said on Monday, but 23,7million, which is in sum 27,2million.
Now ! the question will be, if that is in the questionable years, or if it is too long back. (This might save his butt, but it is unlikely, that all is overdue).
They expect a sentence on Thursday, which hints that it is quite easy to estimate the amount in question, because in these high regions, you do not have to think a lot anymore and will say "you go to prison".
BUT, my fear is, that the minister president of Bayern will interfere through the backdoor or something else (the so called "itallian behaviour is very common and wide spread in the state of Bavaria).
The court in question also made everybody laugh, when they had to plan the trial against three neo-nazi-terrorists (the NSU), because they were doing their job like semi-pros and so one might think that there will be surprises to come that no one can think of. (Maybe an assistant puts coffee on the USB-stick with the data and throws it in the trash, because he thinks, now that it is wet, no one can use it anyway. These kind of storys. I make that up now, of course).
Then there is another thing. "Stern" has discovered that there was a bank account with 500million on it. They found out, that it first was by a club and then later got transfered to a single person. But they did not have enough information (that was in 2002), so they decided not to make this public.
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The crazy Bayern fans
No matter what, the fans keep saying "no one is perfect", "everyone does a small mistake from time to time" and so on. They even say, "No he can't get sentenced. I mean he is our Uli." (As if they really do not understand, why one can even ask that question). Or "he has done so much good", furthermore "the state wastes the money, so it is better in the hands of Uli". "No, we are Bayern!?!?!".
I think the fact, that the prosecutor is female, will lead even to that, that they will say "she doe snot know her profession, they should have taken a man", "she is just a bitch and wizard", "someone has to ******* her, than she would be cooler. I bet she never gets *********"
Rummenigge (Bayern head)
btw. has been senetenced, because he had smuggled two pricey clocks from Saudi-Arabia to Germany and did not declare that for taxation.
Beckenbauer
says: "People should not be that hard with him, he has just made a little mistake." (he btw. pays his taxes in Austria, because he lives there. You can work in Germany, but live elsewhere and then you get not taxed in Germany.)
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Pep's statement
I say: Really? I did find him ok, but now he is a persona non grata. Does he not have any moral? He could have done like other people would do in this situation and say "I won't comment, let's wait for the trail to be finished".
