The operation included the inspection of goods, documentation and personnel, as well as various information and documentation requirements. REUTERS / Mike Blake
The Federal Revenue Administration (AFIP) monitors companies that have filed an import order. According to the organism, they arise inconsistencies in their economic and financial capacity, and resorted to legal proceedings to import goods, thus bypassing the controls established by the body.
The control operations are carried out jointly and simultaneously between the Directorate General of Customs (DGA), the Directorate General for Taxes (DGI) and the Directorate General of Social Security Resources (DGRSS) of AFIP.
The universe of subsidiaries includes companies under investigation, due to its insufficient economic and financial capacity, inconsistencies in VAT and profit returns, differences between the amounts of foreign currency transferred abroad and the imports madeas well as deviations in the due registration of workers.
The operation included the inspection of the goods, documentation and personnel, as well as various information and documentary requirements relating to the commercial operation, the changes of ownership carried out, the details of the currency transfers, the destination assigned to the goods as well as the demonstration of its economic capacity and the traceability of its turnover in the internal market.
The DGI survey was carried out in 70 companies, in which intervention orders were opened, notified in person and disclosure requirements.
In the case of the Customs, 30 companies were inspected, from the pneumatic, textile, toy, technology and tableware sectors. In them, documentation was seized and citations were made.
For their part, the staff assigned to the General Directorate of Social Resources raised 24 companies, for a total of 150 workers, of which 38% (55 workers) had any kind of infringement.
Possible consequences before the detected irregularities go from the warnings, to the suspension or to the complete elimination of the registry of importers and exporters as well as criminal charges for evasion, money laundering and violation of the criminal exchange regime.
The aforementioned actions are part of the strengthening of the control measures that the AFIP is implementing in the event of suspicion or detection of different types of fraudulent maneuvers, coordinating the work with the DGA, DGI and DGRSS.
It should be noted that the companies under observation for under-invoicing of exports e import invoicing surpluses are 722, with over 13,000 transactions which caused the state a loss of nearly a billion dollars.
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Source: Clarin
