A huge tax fraud discovered in Cagliari.
In the sights of the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza , who on the orders of the investigating judge triggered a preventive seizure of 2.5 million euros , with the "freezing" of current accounts and cars, a company from the capital operating in the wholesale trade sector of various items and managed by a family of entrepreneurs of Chinese origin.
According to what was ascertained by the Fiamme Gialle, this company would have systematically used false invoices for non-existent operations which would have allowed it to reduce the taxable base to be subjected to taxation by over 3.7 million euros and not to pay VAT for over 815 thousand euros .
«The mechanism - explain the investigators - was as follows: a single tax document "format" was prepared and used for all fictitious suppliers; this tax document was registered to a company that did not actually exist and the goods being sold were described in an absolutely generic manner , without any specification of the product code and type. Furthermore, there was no indication on the invoice of the existence of a related transport document (which in the majority of cases did not occur) and the amount would have been receipted with an untraceable "cash payment".
This mechanism, according to the investigations carried out so far, would have been replicated dozens and dozens of times in the years from 2016 to 2021 . In some cases, invoices worth hundreds of thousands of euros issued by companies that ceased operations before the date of issue of the invoice itself would also have been accounted for.
Not only that, the investigations have led to the reconstruction of what is believed to be a whirlwind "circle" of false invoicing - amounting to over 315 million euros - issued by nineteen "paper mill" companies (i.e. with fictitious offices) in many Italian regions , « represented by frontmen of Chinese origin and characterized by failure to fulfill accounting, declaration and payment obligations".
