This concerns companies suspected of being the state sales below its real value. Stocks are therefore at the center of ongoing inspections.
The Tax and Customs Authority (TA) will on Wednesday knocking about 10 thousand companies that are suspected to be the handle billing to lower the bill of IRC and VAT. The action is being developed at national level, and at the sight of the Treasury inspectors is the monitoring of the stocks of these companies.
According to the SIC Notícias, 2000 are technicians who are AT Wednesday on the ground to carry out this inventory control of mega-operation.
The universe of 10,000 companies drew the attention of the authorities through the confrontation between the amount of raw materials they buy and the amount of goods that sell later. A company that has acquired a lot of raw material but has sold little, or has many existing stocks, or are subdeclarar sales. That’s why the center of the inspection of Treasury officials will be the control of stocks, said the source of the Business Secretariat of State for Fiscal Affairs.
The verification of inventories of companies is an old concern of the Treasury, given that this is an area prone to match-fixing (whether blistering, for example the company need to show better results than those who has, either reducing them). However, in recent years, control instruments widened, after the adoption of the e-invoice.
Through the mandatory monthly reporting of all invoices issued, AT know now which purchases a company made, as well as sales to the appellant. Similarly, through the obligation of prior notification of transport of goods, it is possible to know what was issued towards a company, and what came out of their warehouses for sale.
secretariat Source State for Fiscal Affairs explains that this mega-operation aims, firstly, to verify the reasons for the discrepancies, and, secondly, provide an opportunity for companies to voluntarily rectify the situation before the new rules take effect.
In 2013, a similar procedure, 8,958 companies were monitored, for which there are already visible results. According to Finance, EUR 43 million were recovered in taxes through coercive collection and that led to decrease in the value of inventories to a value of 497 million euros between 2012 and 2013, which equates to an increase of 18%.
From 2015, companies will be required to report their stocks to the Treasury, through electronic file. The measure is mandatory for all businesses, whether they are collected in IRC or in IRS, since facturem more than 100,000 euros per year and have organized accounting, and requires that the communication is made by 31 January of each year, already start in 2015 on the “stocks” of the end of 2014.
With this massive action surveillance, the Finance also intend to give a sign that the authorities are alert and remain active in the next year, when the new rules take effect.
The Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs should take stock of this operation at midday Wednesday.
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