Caserta – The Caserta Financial Police have executed a precautionary seizure of over €3 million from a company based in San Tammaro, active in the trade of plumbing appliances and accessories, and its legal representative, who is under investigation for failure to pay VAT.
The order, issued by the Preliminary Investigations Judge of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, was executed by members of the Capua Financial Police Company, as part of a broader strategy to combat economic and financial crimes set forth in the Investigative Protocol on Tax Crimes, signed by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Financial Police, and the Caserta Revenue Agency.
The investigation and discovery of the tax evasion
The investigation stems from a tax audit initiated by the Revenue Agency following a targeted risk analysis.
The inspection revealed that the company's legal representative had failed to pay the VAT due for the 2021 tax year, despite the tax being duly reported in the annual tax return.
According to preliminary investigations, the omission concerns sums totaling over 3 million euros, which the company should have paid by December 31, 2022.
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The precautionary seizure, ordered at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, was intended to prevent the dispersal or disposal of assets attributable to the suspect, protecting the tax credit pending the resolution of the criminal proceedings.
A record budget for 2025
According to data provided by the Santa Maria Capua Vetere Public Prosecutor's Office, the sums returned to the Treasury thanks to asset seizures ordered during 2025 in collaboration with the Guardia di Finanza amount to over 125 million euros.
This result confirms the effectiveness of the cooperation model between the judiciary, the economic and financial police, and the Revenue Agency, in an area where tax evasion is a major economic problem.
The San Tammaro case fits into a national context in which VAT evasion continues to represent one of the largest losses for Italian public coffers.
In the province of Caserta alone, the Guardia di Finanza has intensified its controls on companies at risk of tax evasion in 2025, with particular attention to the construction, logistics, and technical materials distribution sectors.
The goal – investigative sources emphasize – is twofold: to recover resources stolen from the state and to protect honest businesses, penalized by unfair competition fueled by tax evaders.
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Tax evasion is a complex situation that has a significant impact on the economy. It's important that authorities act to protect honest businesses, but citizens also need more information to understand how the system works.