Tax specialists exposed intentional VAT evasion scheme

Specialists of the Anti-money laundering department of Main Directorate of the STS in Luhansk region, during the monitoring of external and internal information resources, exposed illegal activity of one industrial enterprise of Luhansk region.

Officials of the specified enterprise reflected in the tax reporting for 2019 unrealistic financial and economic operations for inventory acquisition without actual conduction of operations with companies that had fictitiousness signs. As a result, the tax credit scheme was formed at the expense of alleged operations and the VAT liabilities totaling more than 9.9 million UAH were minimized.

Based on the results of conducted analysis, an analytical research with signs of a criminal violation under Part 3 Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine was compiled and sent for decision to the law enforcement agencies according Article 214 of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine.

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