“It is multithreaded proceedings relate to the so-called. Carousel fraud, phishing aimed at VAT refund through sham transactions. The case is already 66 suspects, but it still has the character development” – he told PAP spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s Office in Katowice Marta Zawada-Dybek.
the following arrests in the investigation informed on Friday, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, the officers arrested four members of an organized criminal group engaged in the these practices. Detainees hear charges of committing economic crimes (including money laundering) and tax offenses. They acted in Kujawy-Pomerania and West Pomerania. They are under the supervision of police, also had to pay bail bonds.
The criminal dealings relied on pozorowaniu commercial transactions in intra-Community trading in steel to defraud the VAT refund. The investigation found that the illegal activities were involved also companies operating in the Czech Republic. Doctored documents was impossible to determine the origin of fraudulently – hence the charge of money laundering.
According to the Ministry of Finance, only in 2014. Treasury lost due to carousel fraud approx. 9 billion zł. With Chain companies, fictitious transactions and fabrykowanej the needs of fraudulent documentation, followed by phishing VAT refund, which in fact was never paid because the transactions are carried out only on paper.
In their illegal business perpetrator exploited mainly VAT rules on export of steel abroad; on the export of goods from Poland in the course of the Community apply a zero rate of VAT. After reporting the alleged exports of goods abroad criminal groups uzyskiwały VAT refund in the amount of 23 percent. VAT invoice confirming the alleged commercial transactions with foreign entities which transactions actually took place.
To curb abuses in the trading steel products in 2013. introduced the so-called. Reverse VAT on trade in certain steel products. This procedure, according to which the buyer, not the seller, is obliged to pay tax. Such a mechanism has eliminated fraud and tax fraud, among others, in the steel trade, fuel and gold, ie. sensitive goods.
According to the regulations, anyone who issues a fictitious invoice, which shows the amount of VAT, He is obliged to pay it. For participation in an organized criminal group or issuing fictitious invoices is punishable by a fine nearly 16 million zł, or imprisonment up to 8 years.
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