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09-10-2010, 01:00 PM
The Department of Taxes (DGII) has arraigned eight companies accusing them of fraudulently selling bills with forged tax billing numbers (NCF) to evade paying taxes, as reported in El Dia. Acting DGII director Germania Montas estimated the fraud at RD$500 million when making the announcement at a press conference together with National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra. She said the eight companies were accused and also 82 companies that purchased the irregular NCFs.
Montas says the greatest fraud was made by Dragonfly Commercial, S.A., belonging to Pavel Storkan, a Czech citizen. She said the company issued NCFs worth RD$313 million despite not selling any goods or offering any service to the beneficiary of the NCF. The beneficiaries manufactured clothes, sold seafood, electrical materials and computer equipment, among other goods.
Montas said that, "the companies were factories for producing NCFs with the only purpose that other companies could deduct those expenses and reduce the taxes they would pay."
The DGII discovered the fraud when Dragonfly Commercial billed the RD$313 million, but did not declare income tax for the value. When DGII inspectors contacted the company they learned that it was not at the address listed with the DGII, and had not purchased the goods or services for which it was billing on the local market, nor did it have a warehouse for the goods.
DGII says that the companies were created in 2008 and requested their NCFs in the usual way and began to bill for diverse products. She said that 25 of the 80 companies had been recommended by two tax advisors.
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Montas says the greatest fraud was made by Dragonfly Commercial, S.A., belonging to Pavel Storkan, a Czech citizen. She said the company issued NCFs worth RD$313 million despite not selling any goods or offering any service to the beneficiary of the NCF. The beneficiaries manufactured clothes, sold seafood, electrical materials and computer equipment, among other goods.
Montas said that, "the companies were factories for producing NCFs with the only purpose that other companies could deduct those expenses and reduce the taxes they would pay."
The DGII discovered the fraud when Dragonfly Commercial billed the RD$313 million, but did not declare income tax for the value. When DGII inspectors contacted the company they learned that it was not at the address listed with the DGII, and had not purchased the goods or services for which it was billing on the local market, nor did it have a warehouse for the goods.
DGII says that the companies were created in 2008 and requested their NCFs in the usual way and began to bill for diverse products. She said that 25 of the 80 companies had been recommended by two tax advisors.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)