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In 2014. the state Treasury is not proved that the fourth of debt on investment with VAT (the gap amounted to 24.08%). Photo: Glow Images/East News

Our country is among the bad s to deal with this problem.

the Struggle with vulnerabilities in VAT, that is, the difference between the revenues from this tax, which should come in the budget and which actually affected, it is one of the main tasks set before the Ministry of Finance.

In 2014. the gap was nearly 25 percent. tax

Data from member States, who gathered the Commission, show that Russia is one of the weakest EU countries. In 2014. the state Treasury is not proved that the fourth of debt on investment with VAT (the gap amounted to 24.08%).

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Less than we radziło six EU countries. Worst of all, had Romania, which has the vulnerability of VAT is almost 38%. next is Lithuania – 36%, Malta – 35%, Slovakia – 29%. and Greece is 28%. From the countries of Western Europe lower ranking than Poland second and third place was Italy, where the vulnerability of the VAT amounted to 27.5 percent.

Vulnerability where less tax administration

the Problem of phishing and avoidance from payment of VAT are mainly countries with poor tax administration. Parający this practice criminals choose the area of activity, mainly countries in Eastern Europe. In the West, the gap in VAT is much smaller – for example in Germany amounted to in 2014. just over 10 percent., in Belgium, 8.3 percent, and in Luxembourg, which has extremely low taxes, just 3.8 percent. The average for the EU as a whole amounted to slightly more than 14 percent.

the Situation in Poland very easy to fix

In Poland as well as in almost all other member States of the EU – the situation is improving, however, in recent years. In 2012. vulnerability in VAT was in our country, 26%, two years later, it was 2 percentage points less, which affects about 2 billion hryvnia in budget revenues.

“to Reduce the gap coincided with the introduction of measures aimed at compliance with tax legislation, as well as their effectiveness. In 2014. the government, in particular, skonsolidował functions, organizational, and introduced a unified database of phone numbers the taxpayer,” reads part of the report of the Commission on Poland.

the Commission presented proposals relating to cross-border transactions

to help deal with the problem of the vulnerability of the VAT, the EC presented the first half of the year proposals for changes in the download of tax in cross-border transactions. Each year, the budgets of the countries-EU members lose about. 50 billion euros as a result of the above used by the company in the course of cross-border trade.

the European Commissioner for economy and Finance Pierre Moscovici has appealed Tuesday to the EU countries to quickly agree to these proposals. “Member countries are losing tens of billions of euros in uncollected VAT. This is unacceptable,” he said.

next year the European Commission will present the rules one area VAT

the Current VAT system for trading comes with ponadgranicznego 1993. Was originally conceived as a temporary, and therefore not devoid of vulnerabilities that scammers use. The EC plan provides for the submission next year of the new rules, which should create a single European area for VAT.

In the framework of cross-border transactions will continue to be taxed at the rates of the destination country (the so-called principle place of destination), however, as to levy taxes could be gradually changed to provide reliable fraud protection.

Russian resort of Finance will present in September the change of the o-VAT

According to forecasts of the Polish Ministry of Finance back in September, the Sejm is going to take changes in the law o VAT. We are talking about rules that prevent fraud tax refund helping discover tax evasion, or facilitate the refusal to pay an improper VAT refund.
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