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Treasury at street level: 90 billion euros are sought Fictitious companies, 'unemployed' with one or more jobs, people who work without registering with social security... The underground economy costs the State more than 90,000 million annually, and the Government already describes the situation as unsustainable: it has intensified investigations with visits to premises and companies to combat fraud against the Treasury. On April 28, the Council of Ministers approved a plan to “surface, persecute and punish” the underground economy , a phenomenon that represents, according to Government calculations, 24 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of our country. Although the new law came into force on May 7, the Treasury has been subjecting employers and workers to tough and exhaustive controls since the beginning of the year . As El Confidencial Digital has learned , the Ministry of Labor introduced, in the Guidelines of the Tax Control Plan for this year, an order to begin carrying out in-person inspections in premises and companies throughout Spain and in all economic sectors.
with the aim of reducing the number of tax frauds, which have not stopped growing since the beginning of the crisis. For this mission, the Tax Agency has been, since February, sending inspectors to all the autonomous communities - except the Basque Country and Navarra - to control, 'in situ', the economic activity of companies and UK Mobile Number List individuals that are considered " suspects” by Work . ECD has been able to have access to an internal ministry document, which breaks down the activity and amount of agents assigned to control , at “street level” and through visits, during the months of February and March. See the table below: The most frequent frauds According to the sources consulted by this newspaper, the Treasury officials in charge of these investigations have carried out 8,575 actions in companies until May 23, 2011 . As a result of these investigations, 257 files have been opened based on the irregularities observed.
Tax Agency inspectors have found a good list of frauds committed by companies and employees. These have been the most frequent: -- Natural and legal persons who had not registered with social security . The data incorporated into the Ministry of Labor database corresponds to 5,396 new taxpayers , who before the controls did not declare to the Treasury. -- Foreigners without authorization to work . During the months of March and April, 68 cases were recorded in which companies had people as employees without their residence permit in order. -- Collection of social security aid despite having a job . In the same period, 164 cases were detected in which social security benefits (for unemployment, disability, or contributory retirement) were made compatible with a job.Existence of fictitious companies without real activity . Inspectors have detected that they were created to simulate a non-existent employment relationship, with the aim of receiving social security benefits or “undue benefits.
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发表于 2024-3-12 13:46:29
