Pay up or get out. In a matter of hours, entrepreneurs lost companies that had prospered for years to the state
However, when discussing how the tax office deprived him of his thriving company VHS Ropa plus by issuing a seizure order, he reconsiders. Successful companies that had been on the market for twenty-five years suddenly became economic ruins. Their owners became lifelong debtors. “If you don’t give them the keys, they break down the door. The locals are watching all this and your reputation is very bad,” says one of the victims. His story is one of three that HN has covered. They differ in some ways, but they have one thing in common. Successful companies that had been on the market for twenty-five years suddenly became economic ruins. Their owners have become lifelong debtors who have no chance of repaying the state the tens of millions of crowns they never stole.