Two thousand employees of the Tax and Customs Authority (TA) were on the ground on Wednesday in a large-scale inspection of about ten thousand companies, to make the control of inventories. For January and February, the Ministry of Finance is planning to mobilize TA teams to do physical counts of the goods.
The inspection campaign, to which the tax authorities gave the name Operation Stocks , focused on companies with no evidence of being th e state’s total sales and overheat inventories artificially to reduce turnover and, therefore, pay less tax.
The inspection took place across the country, covering all counties, involving local technicians of the tax administration . Companies in the tax authorities of sight are mainly entities where the suspected tax be a large discrepancy between orders and declared sales.
It was “based on system data crossing e-bill and the electronic system of communication transport documents “that AT previously selected 10,131 companies to monitor. In a statement, the Ministry of Finance explains that triggered this operation “to detect tax evasion schemes that are not the sales turnover and the simulation of the accumulation of their goods in the stocks of the companies.”
With this action, AT puts more pressure on the universe of companies that, starting next year, have to go to the tax authorities to declare their inventories. Already in 2015, all entities to charge for more than 100 thousand euros and have organized accounts are required to report to the tax authorities, by 31 January, the inventory of assets over the previous year.
With this measure, inscribed by the Government in the State Budget for next year, the Government wants to increase control over inventories of companies, which today are already obliged to use a certified billing program and to report to the tax authorities every month the invoices issued by the and program-making.
Once the AT receiving inventories, will trigger other “checks, embodied in physical counts of inventory reported in order to make the necessary corrections and the establishment of their processes tax offense. “
In the operation carried out on Wednesday, involved experts from various directions of finance and local services, employees from the area of tax and customs inspection, the new unit of Large Taxpayers and other sectoral units of AT, says the ministry led by Maria Luís Albuquerque. In all, were mobilized in 2034 technical tax machine.
The Treasury held this year several monitoring of billing operations, and this inspection campaign focused on the inventories of companies, “the first step” of a anti-fraud plan, according to the Finance, “will continue longer in the months of January and February with the physical counts of goods in stock , the premises of undertakings.”
control over the circuit of corporate assets and the respective turnover was also tighter with the obligation on the part of companies to communicate in advance to the tax authorities all the freight.
The AT will have a booster thousand inspectors that in 2015 come into probationary period, although many are already employees of the home, which just change careers within the structure of the tax administration.
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