By Letterbox in the Welfare State: Fake Entrepreneur Blown Up

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Hundreds of Hungarians have registered a trade in Burgenland's ghost offices near the border. As profile research shows, many of them are likely to be interested in social security: family allowance and hospital visits included.

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An alleged network of letterbox companies currently employs the Austrian fraud fighters. As researches of the news magazine "profile" and investigations of the financial police show, dozens of one-person companies (EPU) have been registered in the municipalities of Rechnitz and Markt Neuhodi, many of them apparently without actual business activities. RECHNITZ/MARKT NEUHODIS. An abandoned building on the main square in Rechnitz is said to be the…

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At present, the Anti-Fraud Office of the Financial Police is working more closely with priority controls against a new form of social security fraud. In Austria, one-person companies are founded by people from the EU neighbouring countries, without actually starting a business activity – that is, so-called letterbox companies. Often there would also be numerous other start-ups at the same addresses, according to the Ministry of Finance. However,…