Last week, the Central Anticorruption Bureau informed on the detection of an organized criminal group that introduced unreliable invoices worth over a billion zlotys to the market. 34 people were detained in the case, and the documents were to be issued in the years 2012-2020. “The purpose of this was to lower public-law liabilities towards the State Treasury,” he informs CBA.
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Mass VAT fraud. Even 1.5 thousand people and “reputable companies”
The scale of the practice is exceptionally large. As determined “Republic“As many as 1.5 thousand people could have been involved in the process of issuing left invoices. people matters.
The daily also established that an “fee” of 8 to 10 percent had to be paid for the invoice. The scope of services offered by the “invoice factory” was wide – the invoices issued were to document the purchase and sale of services (incl.in. transport, construction, IT). Documents were issued for companies-poles. They were assumed, among others on homeless people.
They took out VAT. “At present, about 100 entities have been established”
The National Tax Administration informs that 200 agents took part in the action of breaking the gang. “At the moment, about 100 entities have been established” involved in the practice, we read on the pages KAS. The head of the Masovian Customs and Tax Office in Warsaw, in connection with the case, initiated 73 customs and fiscal inspections of those using empty invoices.
So far, the State Treasury has recovered a small amount of fraudulent funds due to the failure to remit tax VAT, because about PLN 10 million. Investigators assure, however, that the case is of a developmental nature and that further arrests are possible.
25 years in prison for “VAT crime”
From 2017 in Poland regulations apply enabling a large-scale conviction for VAT fraud for 25 years in prison. Such a severe penalty is provided for people who have swindled over PLN 10 million, and from 3 to 15 years of imprisonment is threatening the fraudsters with an amount of more than PLN 5 million.
The trade in left invoices is booming, also on a large scale. In 2020, CBA agents detained a Latvian citizen who is suspected of participating in the fuel mafia. The company led by a man was to issue invoices for the amount of PLN 1.3 billion and extort from the Polish system 300 PLN million in VAT.
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