The satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné revealed in its edition of Wednesday September 20 the few shenanigans that Dany Boon had carried out to buy and resell a luxury sailboat during the year 2021. Three questions (and their answers) to see things more clearly .
But what did he do in this mess? Monday September 18, Dany Boon put up for sale a beautiful 21 meter long sailboat. The chained Duck took the opportunity to reveal the conditions for purchasing the vessel in 2021.
In 2021, Dany Boon created an offshore company called “Ad Illel IBC”, to buy a luxury sailboat, according to The chained Duck. This company is based in Antigua and Barbuda, a tax haven located in the Caribbean.
To create the company, the actor-director pays $5,500. Then, The chained Duck explains that the company Ad Illel IBC paid 3.5 million euros excluding tax to buy this luxury 21-meter sailboat from a French company.
At that time, he does not pay the 20% VAT, because as Antigua and Barbuda is a tax haven, there is no question of tax, nor obligation to declare account or property .
However, Le Canard Enchaîné explains that VAT is a European tax which must be “paid in the country where the boat was delivered”, or France. 20% of 3.5 million dollars… the addition amounts to 700,000 euros of VAT which could have returned to the French State.
Well no ! To stay on track, two conditions had to be met, details Duck.
- That the boat leaves the European Union within six months after its registration under the flag of Antigua
- That the owner of the boat requests an import certificate in the first European port where it called
The investigative weekly asked the actor and his lawyer if he had fulfilled these two conditions. They did not respond to the newspaper.
On the other hand, the expert consulted by the newspaper ensures that VAT could have been requested in the event of a customs check.
This is no longer likely to happen, because the boat is now for sale. The price displayed is 2,150,000 euros. That’s more than a million euros less than the purchase price… It’s hard to imagine what that means for him: Dany Boon is on the podium of the highest paid French actors.