Suspicion to extort VAT in bloom. The Treasury will be able to lose up to 700 million RUB Gazeta.pl

was Arrested 7 suspects, but this does not preclude subsequent. Also continue to search and the protection of property obtained by criminal means.

reads a message on the website of the Ministry of Finance, after the interrogation, the Prosecutor’s office wants to bring charges, such as, in particular, “creating and running an organized criminal group or participation in this group and represent management in the tax office already lists the tax returns that contain false statements about the amount of the tax assessed podlegającemu deduction or pomocnictwa for this action.”

the information also States that “the criminal group operated from July 2015. at least August 2016. Its members were put into circulation on the territory of Poland of liquid fuel in the procedure of acquisition of goods within the community, without payment of value added tax”.

Fuel brought into our country from abroad, a company – the so-called vanishing taxpayers, worked well. 3 months. At that time, had not filed a tax return, and also submitted the declarations pointed out the false information. As a result, VAT was never he credited to the state budget.

Fictitious turnover, and 700 million UAH of losses

“Between these companies and new companies buforowymi passed fictitious turnover of fuel. In fact, the product was transported directly from the supplier to the final recipient. Through these activities, the final recipient of fuel showed in their declarations unreliable data on the size of the input tax bearing in mind that this tax was not reserved in the early stages of trading. Thus, the Treasury lost more than 700 million rubles“, – stated in the message.

This is the second recent spectacular arrest in connection with the alleged extortion of VAT. A few days ago, I was arrested, in particular, former members of the gang from Pruszkow. According to the Ministry of Finance activities detained the group of persons uszczupliły budget revenues from VAT by at least 50 million UAH.

45 billion UAH of VAT vulnerability

anti-fraud and wyłudzeniami VAT and seal the whole system, but recently one of the major goals of the Ministry of Finance. Why? The answer gives the consulting company PwC, which this vulnerability VAT in Poland (the difference between what theoretically should have an impact to the budget from this tax, and that actually affects the result of fraud, extortion and error) has made in the past year. of 45 billion.

Unfortunately, as recent data on income in the budget, it does not go as smoothly as the government wishes.