2024-08-15 11:36:58
The Internal Revenue Service (SRI) announced that a conviction was obtained for the crime of tax fraud. Through shell companies, a taxpayer in Loja evaded paying taxes and, in addition to a year in prison, must pay the SRI a full reparation of $20,000.
Following a complaint filed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and after the corresponding judicial process, the Criminal Judicial Unit based in the Loja canton issued a conviction sentence against a taxpayer from the province of Loja, for the crime of tax evasion typified in numeral 12 of article 298 of the Code Comprehensive Organic Criminal Law (COIP)when performing business transactions con shell companies.
One of the mechanisms used for this evasion are the phantom or fictitious companies. The main objective is the creation of fake invoices which allow non-existent expenses to be supported, money laundering actions to be covered up, operations to be simulated with real businesses, and paying less taxes, or paying nothing at all.
The taxpayer was declared responsible for the crime as the perpetrator, and was therefore sentenced to one year in prison. deprivation of libertythe payment of a fine of ten basic unified salaries of the general worker (SBU) and deliver to the SRI the amount of $20,000 as comprehensive compensation.
Finally, as a measure of comprehensive reparation, the criminal judges ordered that the convicted woman publicly apologize to the Tax Administration in a local newspaper, expressing their commitment to non-repetition.
Between 2019 and 2021, the IRS estimated a loss to the Treasury from uncollected taxes, through shell companies, of between $2.5 and $3 billion. This meant a fraud of, on average, 1 billion annually. In those years, more than 1,000 shell companies were detected. (JS)
By: LA HORA Newspaper