260 million tax evasion in the GDI, but 20 million files are sent to small entrepreneurs and citizens
LUNEBURG, GERMANY – JULY 26: In this photo illustration, a shopping cart rolls down the isles of a supermarket on July 26, 2005 in Luneburg, Germany. Sparked by the election manifesto of the opposition party CDU, Germany currently debates whether raising the Mehrwertsteuer (VAT) would in fact promote economic growth or if it would have the opposite effect by hurting families and low-income households. (Photo by Andreas Rentz / Getty Images)
The news agencies have given news of an investigation into tax evasion against the large-scale retail giants Auchan and Carrefour for the not insignificant figure of 1.8 billion euros, so much so that the Guardia di Finanza has seized 260 million euros. The operation involved VAT and the GDO companies involved would have systematically defrauded VAT by purchasing the goods without applying VAT, both through the presentation of false letters of intent to Italian suppliers, and through the fulfillment of non-taxable intra-community transactions by paper companies interposed within the billing cycle of the goods. In this way, the large-scale distribution chains, Supermarkets Gs (now Carrefour Italia) and Auchan (investigated by law 231/01), final beneficiaries of the fraud, would have obtained an undue tax saving connected with the omitted payment of VAT from part of the missing trader companies.
Now the government is about to send about 2 0 million tax bills to individual Italian citizens. Many of these will reach companies and entrepreneurs who are already in difficulty if not bankrupt. an additional burden which, probably, they will not be able to meet. The taxman is raging against the small ones, against those who have no possibility of defending themselves even legally, but the real evasion, the billionaire one, the one that actually changes the state budget takes place by large groups Who has an international structure can exploit the mechanisms IVA, can establish offices abroad where to pay royalties to reduce profits, can simply forget to declare the VAT base, and do not think that only marginal realities do it. However, these are cases that would require complex investigations, transfers, international collaborations, investments in human and investigative skills, so it is much easier, and demagogic, to check the receipt or the deduction of the boiler, even if the return will then be laughable.
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