2.11.Met dagtekening 29 september 2014 is door [F] en [G] een “written statement” opgesteld. In die verklaring is voor zover hier van belang het volgende opgenomen:
“(…)
We did not borrow workers from [belanghebbende] or [H] . We had a contract with these organizations to have them buy gold for us. We did not pay them by the hour. We paid them per venue held. There was also a bonus involved, a commission on stock as agreed, if they were successful. Training costs, housing costs, costs of personnel, costs of assets and skills, were all paid by [belanghebbende] and not by us. Their operation was lead by their manager [J] .
(…)
[belanghebbende] ’s role was as follows. [belanghebbende] did not provide the advertising for the venues. [belanghebbende] ’s role was to:
- have their managers organize staff to cover each venue on a list of areas provided by
[E VOF] ;
- [belanghebbende] ’s managers were to set up the venue, and their staff to arrange the required lay
out for the room provided, by re-arranging tables and chairs, setting up signs, scales and
testing equipement;
- [belanghebbende]’s staff was to greet all customers, evaluate jewelry, test and purchase when
possible;
- at the end of the day all items purchased were to be handed over to their manager [J]
, a [belanghebbende] employee, and later [K];
- [belanghebbende] invoiced [E VOF] € 135 for each venue plus a commission of approximately 5% of the total value of stock purchased depending on the rate at which the stock was purchased.
(…)
Within the organization of [belanghebbende] in The Netherlands [J] and later [K] received double the normal wage from [belanghebbende]. They were managers and instructed the personnel of the company. They decided who would work where. They replaced workers who went on holiday. We never had anything to do with the personnel of [belanghebbende].
(…)
In the first quarter of 2012 we had a meeting with an employee of the tax administration called [C] . He told us that if [belanghebbende] would release her workers to our organization [E VOF] this would be much better and would solve all possible problems with the Dutch tax administration. This was mentioned to us by [C] . Following his suggestion we negotiated with [belanghebbende] to take over their personnel.
(…)”