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Cisco in damage control after Brazil tax raids

AccountancyAge.com, Accountancy Age, 22 Oct 2007

Cisco has gone into damage control following news worldwide about raids on its offices in Brazil in relation to tax avoidance

Cisco Systems, the world's biggest manufacturer of computer network equipment, published advertisements in all major Brazilian newspapers last Friday to defend the company against allegations it benefited from a scheme to avoid duties on products shipped from tax havens to Brazil.

‘In the review of the facts that we've been able to undertake, we do not believe Cisco has acted inappropriately,’ Cisco said in a statement released to the newspapers. ‘Key to our evaluation, we would note that Cisco does not import products directly into Brazil, but relies on resellers,’

No charges have been filed, but the judge who authorised the raid on Cisco offices in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo last Tuesday said bogus documents showing unreasonably low prices had been used to import electronic and telecommunications products to avoid duties.

Cisco said that, of the 44 warrants issued by the Brazilian authorities ‘only four were issued to Cisco employees’. ‘Our foremost concern and focus is with our four detained employees and their families,’ it said.

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