Dany Boon responds. Two days after an article chained duck According to which the actor would have benefited from a financial agreement for the resale of a boat, the main interested party reacted on Instagram to defend himself:
“I should note that my sailboat was sold in France in June 2023 and VAT was paid in France,” he wrote in the caption of a children’s drawing of a boat sailing on the water.
He also mentions “certain aggressive comments that, among other things, even suggest sinking my sailboat (which, by the way, is not pleasant at all).”
An extraterritorial entity
In its latest edition, The chained duck reported that the actor would have created an offshore entity, Ad Illel IBS, domiciled in the tax haven of Antigua and Barbuda (Antilles), through which he would have purchased a 21-meter-long yacht for 3.5 million euros. The weekly reported that this operation would have allowed it to avoid paying 700,000 euros in VAT for the resale of the boat.
This is not the first time that Dany Boon has been accused of tax tricks. In 2019, Half part revealed that the actor and director had invested millions of dollars in “hedge funds,” some of which were domiciled in tax havens.
Surprising revelations for someone who had created an image of a fiscal patriot. Dany Boon confided, for example, in March 2018 on the set of the program. c to you (France 5) having rejected a tax agreement in Luxembourg because he considered it normal to pay his taxes in France.
Source: BFM TV
