FarmerSwede
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Re: Lavasoft's best business practices
I am interested in IT news so I watch this forum often but do not post. I feel it is good in this case.
I live in Sweden and saw this original story in the local newspaper. Interested in it myself to see if I could write a story I checked some sources because in Sweden much of this is public information because we are socialist society.
You should be carefull with this because it is not really accurate information but in my opinion seems to be very 'blown up' to make a good story.
What I did confirm was that the company does owe a tax for a standard audit adjustment but it is not due yet until March.And the amount did not seem high or unusual against the company turnover finances. I confirmed too that the office that receives tax statements has their tax papers for 2004, 2005, and 2006. I aldo confirmed that the company is appealing some decisions by the tax office, but again I do not think this is unusual for a business to do.
So I want to share that infomration with you from a Sweden view.
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said by FarmerSwede  :I am interested in IT news so I watch this forum often but do not post. I feel it is good in this case. I live in Sweden and saw this original story in the local newspaper. Interested in it myself to see if I could write a story I checked some sources because in Sweden much of this is public information because we are socialist society. You should be carefull with this because it is not really accurate information but in my opinion seems to be very 'blown up' to make a good story. What I did confirm was that the company does owe a tax for a standard audit adjustment but it is not due yet until March.And the amount did not seem high or unusual against the company turnover finances. I confirmed too that the office that receives tax statements has their tax papers for 2004, 2005, and 2006. I aldo confirmed that the company is appealing some decisions by the tax office, but again I do not think this is unusual for a business to do. So I want to share that infomration with you from a Sweden view. Thank you. This is probably more along the lines of how things really are. Hope your story is more the truth, although Ad-Aware has been on shaky ground before.
Thanks for the effort on getting the story right. 
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ohnoes112
join:2006-08-21
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Hmmm(x2)Thankyou for your interpretation but it still raises questions
May i ask which parts you consider to be factually incorrect,the translation or the original news article by a prominent Swedish IT news site ?
BTW we know you Swede's are laid back folks but most countries have laws which would open a source to legal action if it published falsehoods that were detrimental to the claiment etc |
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Corrine
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said by FarmerSwede :. . . Interested in it myself to see if I could write a story I checked some sources because in Sweden much of this is public information because we are socialist society. You should be carefull with this because it is not really accurate information but in my opinion seems to be very 'blown up' to make a good story. . . . If you were suddenly interested enough in Lavasoft to consider writing a story, I'm surprised you didn't pick up on the aspects beyond the tax issue. After all, as I learned at FL, it appears that even the Swedish Tax Authorities are trying to avoid Swedish taxes. See »www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx···206.html
However, from what I have figured out from the online translations of the comments posted at »www.idg.se/2.1085/1.94960?articl···postings (realizing of course that the accuracy is not the best) is that the tax issue appears to be only one part of the problem at Lavasoft.
What about the claims for unpaid salaries?
What about the comments about ethics?
Now you could say that those are statements made by disgruntled former employees. However, I would be more inclined to say "history repeats". See, for example, the comment posted at Assarbad's blog writeup Some Knew It Others Found Out Recently. It appears from that at least one someone knew what it was like at Lavasoft.
BTW, FarmerSwede, also included in the articles and not excused by the tax explanation are the personal items (i.e., TV and exercise equipment) purchased with company funds. Of even more concern by both the Swedish and German Governments, I would suppose, would be the house in Germany, also purchased with company funds, yet family are living there. Don't forget the "continuous payments to different American bank accounts, without invoices or written agreements".
So, even if Lavasoft meets the dates for paying the overdue taxes, there certainly seems to have been a question of unethical business practices, to say the least.
@ohnoes112 -- Thanks for posting the translation here. I knew BBR was the place to look for more information on this topic and acknowledged that in my blog post:As most people know, when there is a problem in the security world, the place to check first is BroadBand Reports Security Forum (commonly referred to as BBR). I was not disappointed. A thread at BBR led me to this post by someone using the nickname "Diablo2". It appears that the translation by Diablo2 is very similar to what I obtained from Systran. --
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