Vitebsk tax authorities additionally charged Br5.8 billion based on transactions with sham companies

May 16, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Tax authorities of the Vitebsk region in January-March additionally charged about Br5.8 billion based on the results of inspections of business entities that reflected fictitious transactions with pseudo-entrepreneurial structures in their accounting. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press center of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties Inspectorate for the Vitebsk region. During control activities, 15 enterprises and four individual entrepreneurs were identified who used the services of pseudo-entrepreneurial structures to conceal taxable items. As a result of control measures, supplies of goods from pseudo-structures, which were indicated as suppliers in primary accounting documents, were not confirmed. At the same time, business entities, resorting to the services of pseudo-structures, improperly deducted VAT, unreasonably overstated costs, which led to incomplete payment or non-payment of significant amounts of taxes and duties to the budget. In total, based on the results of inspections, Br5.8 billion was additionally charged to the budget, including Br4.9 billion in taxes and duties. Materials from 14 inspections have been sent to law enforcement agencies for legal assessment. Some of them have already been reviewed, and six criminal cases have been initiated against officials of four organizations and two individual entrepreneurs. -0-