Ten people have been reported in an investigation by the Bari Public Prosecutor's Office into an alleged tax fraud involving seven companies operating in the woodworking sector and in the wholesale trade of pallets.
According to the investigations of the Guardia di Finanza, a fraud system was created aimed at obtaining undue and significant tax advantages connected to the use of invoices for operations, considered non-existent, with over 26,5 million euros of taxable income subtracted from the tax authorities.
The defendants are accused, to varying degrees, of using invoices for non-existent transactions, omitted or incorrect declarations, and concealment and destruction of accounting documentation.
The investigation started in Campania and has allowed us to ascertain, according to what has emerged from the investigations, a scheme, considered fraudulent, which through a 'carousel fraud' materialized in the documentation of costs of 'phantom' companies, formally represented by 'front men' with no managerial experience and, in the majority of cases, penniless or burdened by criminal or police records.
The companies were allegedly set up to allow other economic operators, according to the prosecution, to evade taxes through false accounting justification for sales of goods that never took place. The conduct, considered illegal, allowed to ascertain an estimate of evaded tax, between Irpef, Ires and Iva of more than 13 million euros.
In addition to an initial preventive seizure ordered by the investigating judge of the Bari court, including financial availability and registered movable and immovable assets of the administrators, the investigators advanced further seizure proposals. The activities of the Bari financial police were carried out in synergy with the departments of the Campania, Lazio, Veneto, Abruzzo and Lombardy corps.
Article published on March 14, 2023 - 12pm
