Following a complaint from the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP)the Federal Justice of Bahía Blanca ordered raids in 14 homes located in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero, Neuquén and Formosa to break up a group of 123 signatures engaged in the production and export of garlic and onion who evaded since January 2020 taxes by $7,062 million and currency leaked by more than US$176 million through fraudulent exports.
The bogus producers and exporters had assembled a series of false signatures to declare their foreign salesin such a way that when the AFIP detected the irregularity and canceled one of the companies, they immediately went on to use another -equally false- until it was also uncovered and disarticulated.
The fraudulent maneuver had for objective avoid the obligation to liquidate the dollars in the official market in order to keep foreign currency abroad or enter it informally in the parallel market. In addition, it was found that 479 workers of the more than 1,000 hired in the different establishments had irregularities in your registration.
The inspection and customs control tasks of the body led by Carlos Castagneto allowed to identify 123 exporters who carried out these maneuvers and whose CUIT numbers have already been deregistered. The main destination of shipments was Brazil and merchandise from Mendoza, Neuquén and Bahía Blancacrossed the border by Clorinda, Formosa; Bernardo de Irigoyen and San Javier, Missionsand Paso de los Libres and Santo Tomé, Corrientes.
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The amount evaded estimated since the beginning of 2020 amounts to $194 million in concept of Value Added Tax and $6,868 million in concept of Income Tax for sales both in the domestic and foreign markets.
The figures of the VAT arise from the externalized tax credit and the amount of Profits to estimate the rate of 30% on the accumulated net invoicing of $22,895 million. Regarding currencies, only the 1% of the US$178 million that they declared to have exported, for which they still have to liquidate US$176 million who fled the country.
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The investigation was the result of an articulated work between the customs, tax and social security areas in charge of the General Tax Directorate (DGI)the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) and the General Directorate of Social Security Resources (DGRSS).
To measure the magnitude of the maneuver, it should be remembered that the Argentina export more than US$170 million of garlic per year and ranks third in the world ranking of suppliers of this vegetable. He 70% of production goes abroad. As for the onion, the 30% is sold in the international market and generates income for more than US$28 million annual.
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The AFIP found the existence of a set of small and medium producers that market these products within a marginal circuit, using as intermediaries apocrypha for, in this way, evade paying taxes.
The circuit of these commercial operations was closed through the sale of this production to a group of exporters who, using false documentationthey exported the garlic and onion acquired in a informal. In this way, they managed to get hold of the currencies, but avoided liquidating them in the country.
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Likewise, the agency was able to verify the existence of a group of people related throughout the production and marketing chain that would make up a illicit tax association in order to avoid paying taxes.
These people would be in charge of obtaining apocryphal bills purchase in the domestic market and sale abroad through the recruitment and registration of subjects without tax capacityin addition to the issuance of fake receipts. By means of this device, the producers and exporters of garlic and onion tried to form a “peel” to give a legal appearance to your fraudulent activity.
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The raids were arranged by the Federal Court No. 1 of Bahía Blanca simultaneously in 14 addresses located in the Province of Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero, Neuquén and Formosa. In the investigation tasks and procedures, the Argentine Federal Policewho kidnapped documentation, computer equipment and cell phones that will be analyzed to prove the crimes denounced.
Source: Ambito
