Reggio Emilia, 21 June 2024 – It operated in the clothing sector. The company was managed by a citizen of Chinese originnow untraceable, as it turned out owner of a business no longer operational since June 2017 but which remained formally active in issuing false invoices.
A tax fraud discovered by the operators of the Correggio department of the Guardia di Finanza, which arrived a few hours after another maxi-operation of the provincial command on a tour from 62 million fake invoices. The investigations, coordinated by the provincial command of the Fiamme Gialle, revealed the company’s role as a “paper mill”, i.e. a company dedicated solely to issuing invoices for completely non-existent commercial operations.
The investigation of the Correggio financiers began a verification activity on the Chinese entrepreneur, initially identified as a total tax evader. However, the results of further investigations carried out made it possible to ascertain that the company had effectively been inactive for seven years is that, from June 2017 until November 2023, it had issued 255 invoices for a total taxable amount of approximately six million euros towards numerous companies operating on the national territory, allowing them to evade income taxes and benefit from unduly deducted VAT of approximately 1.3 million euros.
For tax fraudThe holder of the company was reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Reggio Emilia. He must answer for issuing false invoices. Furthermore, since he was a total tax evader, the financiers reconstructed and attributed to the same entrepreneur the income produced and not declared from 2017 to 2023, also deriving from illicit proceeds and amounting to one million and 360 thousand euros.
And it didn’t end here. To the same owner it was accordingly an evaded tax of approximately 510 thousand euros was contestedin addition to the VAT due, for one million and 240 thousand euros, also adding the crime of omitted tax declaration. To exclude the individual company in question from the economic circuit, as it is characterized by extreme fiscal and market-distorting danger, the Revenue Agency was asked to automatically terminate its VAT number, which at the time of the investigations was found to be formally still active, even at the date of the conclusion of the investigations.
The guard of Finance, in fact, combats VAT fraud not only on a repressive but also preventive level, asking for the termination of the VAT numbers of those involved in fraud schemes. Investigations are now continuing, with attention also focused on the other companies that received the false invoices, through which the various companies, with offices in various areas of Italy, could make people believe that they had made purchases and, therefore, payments. of money, which however would never have happened in reality.
