Carrara, 17 June 2024 – A company based in Switzerland, but which operated in Italy and in particular in the stone sector in Carrarawhere one was ascertained tax evasion amounting to 5 million euros.
To carry out the investigation against the company he achieved millionaire revenues not declared it was the financial police together with the revenue agency of Massa Carrara.
The operation was triggered when the provincial management of the Massa revenue agency, during the inspection of the VAT refund requests presented by the company for hundreds of thousands of eurosdetected tax evasion risk alerts and involved the financial police group of Massa Carrara, for the start of an inspection activity.
Once the first acquisitions of documents were made in the residence of an Italian entrepreneur and of the company, located within another Italian company attributable to the same entrepreneur, they were immediately confirmed doubts about regularity raised by revenue agency officials.
Elements potentially harbingers of a mix between the Italian and Swiss companies therefore emerged, which required detailed in-depth analysis regarding all commercial relationships with Italian suppliers and customers. These insights were carried out during the tax audit initiated by the financiers, during which they were examined all commercial operations conducted by the company in Italy. The results of the tax investigations made it possible to reveal incontrovertible elements regarding the presence on Italian territory of the actual operational activity of the Swiss company, hidden within the Italian company.
The financiers then reported the entrepreneur to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Massa court for the crime of failure to declare income taxes.
The subsequent phases of the assessment conducted led the taxpayer to comply, with a payment, in four instalments, of a total sum of taxes due and penalties equal to over 900,000 euros and, to the regularization of the company in Italy. The payment of the taxes due eliminated the precautionary needs of the preventive seizureoriginally requested from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which nevertheless initiated a request criminal proceedings towards the entrepreneur.
