School suspensions up under new rules, OnlyFans influencers get tax bills, many voters make up minds on local elections and more news this Thursday.
Number of suspended school students rises under new rules
Public schools or folkeskoler in Denmark have suspended a total of 1,450 students following the introduction of new disciplinary regulations. The children were suspended from 789 schools.
The number equates to 14 suspensions every school day in the first six months of the year, newspaper Berlingske writes having acquired the data through an access-to-information request.
Most of the suspensions were the result of fights or violent behaviour towards other pupils and lasted up to ten days.
Education Minister Mattias Tesfaye welcomed the increased use of suspensions at schools.
“I naturally view prevention and dialogue as valuable classroom methods, but I also support the use of consequence,” he told Berlingske.
The figures indicate a rise in suspensions since the start of the year, when stricter rules were introduced giving schools more authority to suspend disorderly pupils.
Tax authorities send hefty bills to OnlyFans influencers
A large proportion of Danish influencers who earn money on adult content platform OnlyFans have not reported their revenues to the Tax Agency, Skat, and have now received tax bills, news wire Ritzau writes.
Revenues from posting photos and videos, sponsored posts and gifts are all taxable, but tax inspectors found 94 percent of OnlyFans influencers they audited had not reported takings correctly, the Tax Ministry said in a statement.
The large proportion suggests a genuine problem rather than individual errors are at play according to Tax Minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen.
Tax authorities sent bills totalling 13 million kroner in unpaid taxes in the first half of this year to over 600 people who did not correctly report earnings from social media.
Advertisement
Two-thirds of voters decided ahead of local elections
A new poll by the Voxmeter institute shows 67 percent of people have already decided how to vote in the November 18th local elections.
Election day is still three weeks away but a large proportion have already made up their minds, according to the polling.
67.6 percent answered ‘yes’ when asked if they knew who they’d vote for in the poll or 1,317 people.
Thousands of foreign nationals are eligible to vote in the election.
Biker gang ordered to disband in landmark case
Biker group Bandidos has been ordered to disband following a ruling at Helsingør District Court on Wednesday.
The group has appealed the ruling and will seek acquittal, its lawyer said.
In a brief statement explaining the ruling, the presiding judge said the court had found that Bandidos, alongside a legal purpose, also pursues an illegal one.
This conclusion is partly based on crimes committed by the club’s members.
The court also found that Bandidos constitutes a single, unified association. This was a key question in the case, along with whether the organisation has a legal purpose.
Section 78 of the Danish constitution protects the right to form associations, but they can be banned if they are proved to have illegal purposes.