Mark Krok
| Mark Krok | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mark Krok South Africa |
| 🏡 Residence | Cape Town, South Africa |
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| 👩 Spouse(s) | Janine Krok |
Mark Krok (born 10 January 1960) is a South African businessman. He is the son of billionaire industrialist Abraham Krok.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Krok was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mark Krok immigrated to Australia in 2002,[2] then to the United Kingdom in 2008,[3] and finally back to Cape Town, South Africa, where he currently resides.[4]
Mark Krok is the son of the late cosmetics and gaming businessman Abraham Krok and his father's second wife Brenda Krok. He has one brother (Dovid Krok) and one sister (Simone Krok), as well as two half-sisters (Elana Pincus (nee Krok) and Shelly Crook (nee Krok) and one half-brother (Maxim Krok) from Abraham Krok's previous marriage.[5] Mark Krok is married to South African Janine Krok.[6]
After his return to South Africa, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) also charged Krok for tax evasion on two counts. The precedent was set by the 1999 agreement for avoidance of double taxation and fiscal evasion between Australia and South Africa.[7]
After being found guilty in the case filed against him in RSA on 31 January 2014, Krok appealed to the Supreme Court of South Africa that same year.[8] Krok's appeal was ultimately rejected by the court, and his cases are now closed.[9]
In its ruling against Krok on 20 August 2015, the Supreme Court cited the following:
“The saga began when he (Krok) immigrated to Australia in April 2002. Prior his departure, he had sought professional advice on the tax implications relating to his assets which eventually led to him setting up an elaborate scheme to avoid adverse exchange control implications. The scheme involved him, inter alia, vesting the beneficial interests in both the assets and the income in a British Virgin Islands company through a series of agreements. In consequence to all his transactional activity, according to Mr Krok, he ceded all his South African income and assets to a company except for the bare ownership thereof, and he had no income or capital gains on which he could be taxed by the ATO under the agreements. On 29 December 2008, Mr Krok again emigrated from Australia to the United Kingdom. He set up a similar tax avoidance scheme in respect of which he purported to transfer to the second appellant, Jucool Enterprises Inc. (Jucool), a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, his assets situated in South Africa. In 2009, the ATO launched an audit of Mr Krok's taxation affairs as part of a government initiative investigating participation by Australians in internationally promoted tax arrangements to identify taxpayers involved in significant offshore transactions or large transfers of funds to or from Australia. Resultant, the ATO held Mr Krok liable for $25 361 875.79 plus interest."[10] The ATO's investigation also revealed Krok's illegal use of funds while his assets were frozen, noting that Krok used South African credit cards from blocked assets for purchases ranging from the purchasing and renovation of multiple holiday homes, private payments to his mother and the purchasing of 2010 FIFA World Cup tickets.[11]
There are currently no open cases against Mark Krok.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Krok heir faces R228m tax bill". News24. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
- ↑ "ATO sets sights on S African millions". The Australian. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ "Tax Treaty Case Law around the Globe 2015". Retrieved 29 March 2016 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "SARS wins case over billionaire's assets". IOL. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Feud rips Krok family apart". Times Live. Retrieved 6 February 2010.[dead link]
- ↑ "Sars swats skin-lightening cream heir". Press Reader. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ↑ "You can run, but you can't hide – Australia invokes DTA to secure an order over South African assets". The Sait. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ↑ "LAPD-DRJ-SCA-2015-04 - Mark Krok and Jucool Enterprises 20 August 2015.pdf" (PDF). Sars. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "Preservation order granted against SA assets of Mark Krok – SARS". Politics Web. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ "MEDIA SUMMARY OF JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL" (PDF). Saflii. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ "In The High Court of South Africa" (PDF). Saflii. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
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