Tax back to the street to inspect inventories of ten thousand companies – publico

Tax back to the street to inspect inventories of ten thousand companies – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

Officials across the country the Tax and Customs Authority (TA) gave the starting shot this morning for a wide range of operation to check on the ground inventories ten thousand companies. One of the objectives of the inspection involves prove the veracity of the quantities of stock reported by the companies with a turnover of over one hundred thousand euros, which had to report to the tax authorities their inventories by 6 February.

                     

                          Operation Stocks II began on Friday and extends the next few weeks, involving about 3,000 employees of the tax authorities, announced the Ministry of Finance in a statement.

The workers mobilized by AT will do the “strict control of inventories of more than ten thousand new companies that were detected with relevant evidence of tax evasion, as well as companies with tax debt, order to make the necessary corrections and the establishment of their tax infringement proceedings “, said the ministry led by Maria Luís Albuquerque.

The action aims to make the” situations of control under-invoicing by companies based in system data and cross-invoice and e-communication system of transport documents “of goods.

From this year, all entities with organized accounts that have a turnover of more than one hundred thousand euros spent to be required and inform the tax authorities the inventory of goods that were in stock at the end of last year.

The first phase of Operation Stocks began in December, weeks before companies have to send AT this information. At that time, in which the priority was to identify, monitor companies, recommending the voluntary settlement of tax adjustments, the tax authorities have also come about ten thousand companies.

According to the Ministry of Finance, “many of the companies accompanied the first phase voluntarily regularize their tax situation. ” The amount of VAT paid by companies participating in the quarterly accounting scheme grew by 90%, while the value delivered by the companies participating in the monthly basis rose 30%. The absolute values ​​of voluntary collection were not disclosed by Finance.

Since July last year, the tax authorities detected 235 337 differences in the tax compliance of companies, a universe that is not limited to companies that are in focus this tax operation. The identification of these deviations results, for example, in cases where companies did not deliver the periodic VAT return or did not declare any tax due.

Between July and the end of January, were granted by AT 58, 8000 external visits at national level, involving 2515 employees.