Monday 17 June 2024 – 09:15
The company with registered office in Switzerland operated in the Tuscan stone sector, in the province of Massa-Carrara, within another Italian company attributable to the same entrepreneur and without declaring anything to the tax authorities: it would have been created in this way, according to what was reconstructed by the financial police and by officials of the Revenue Agency, a tax evasion of 5 million euros.
The entrepreneur was reported for the crime of failure to declare income taxes. The taxpayer subsequently agreed to the regularization of the company in Italy with the payment, in four instalments, of a total sum of taxes due and penalties amounting to over 900 thousand euros.
The investigative activity focused on the activity operating in the Apuan area, triggered after the provincial management of the Agency detected risk alerts after a check on the VAT refund requests presented by the company for hundreds of thousands of euros.
Once the first documents were acquired, elements potentially harbingers of a mix between the Italian and Swiss companies emerged. From there the insights, carried out during the tax audit initiated by the financiers and during which all the commercial operations conducted by the company in Italy were examined. The results of the tax investigations led to certifying the “presence on Italian territory of the actual operational activity of the Swiss company, hidden within the Italian company”.
