The Twitch streamer Trymacs had to undergo a tax audit. It was found that he is missing €240,000 because companies did not pay their invoices. The streamer also reports that his situation is not an isolated case.
What is happening with Trymacs right now? Maximilian Stemmler, better known as Trymacs, is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany, which is why the tax office conducted an audit. The authority scrutinized his income and expenses from the past three years.
Defrauded of hundreds of thousands of euros: As Trymacs reported in a stream, this tax audit has now been completed and turned out to be quite acceptable overall. However, during the audit, it was noticed that the streamer is missing €240,000: “What’s tough is that they thought for a while that I was hiding money because funds were missing from my business account. They were not transferred by large companies. A lot of money.”
The streamer further explains: “Over the three years, companies I worked withhave not paid me €240,000. Not paid! There are outstanding invoices after reminders. €240,000 have not been paid to me.”
Afterwards, Trymacs explained again that it was first noticed during the tax audit that these funds were never transferred to him: “It has just now been noticed. You don’t account for that, you trust them.”
Additionally, the streamer reports that he can no longer get this money because the said invoices are time-barred: “The €240,000 are gone. Three years, time-barred, I can’t get it back. These are large companies with which I worked a lot and they say ‘tough luck, we have new investors, you can’t claim that anymore, three years are up, goodbye.'”
“It was such a scheme”
“In the industry, there was such a scheme where influencers were not paid. Then a reminder came and the money still wasn’t paid. And they wanted to remain liquid and partially paid out the funds a year later.”
One company, according to Trymacs, went even further and “simply did not pay” the funds. However, the streamer does not reveal which company this was and which influencers were affected: “And that went through. I have many colleagues who also simply were not paid, it works.”
You can see the excerpt from the stream in which Trymacs talks about the lost €240,000 and the “scheme” of some companies here on YouTube:
Trymacs explained in the stream that he learned a lot from it and now checks every invoice immediately. The money is of course gone anyway.
Also, the Twitch streamer Erik “Gronkh” Range had to undergo a tax audit recently, which lasted about a year in total. However, for Gronkh, the wait was worth it, as he received a lot of money back from the tax office: Gronkh explains how the tax office bothered him for a year, only to give him money back in the end
