Friday, 17 December 2021 16:21

Ministry of Finance filed 7 new notices for alleged tax evasion cases for US$7.8 million and one for smuggling of goods for US$28 million

Written by Evelyn Alas

The minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya, arrived at the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), to present seven new notices for alleged cases of tax evasion amounting to US$7.8 million between taxes and fines.

The new cases that have been presented to the FGR belong to the economic activities of the sale of clothing and household appliances, sale of dairy products, sale, import and repair of vehicles, engineering services, sale of veterinary products.

Likewise, as part of the Plan Anticontrabando, it filed a notice for alleged smuggling of goods and income fraud of the Dirección General de Aduanas (DGA), with this notice amounting to approximately US$28 million.

It also presented a case of technical smuggling, which are 10 foreign trade operations, in which US$2,200 were not declared at the entrance to Customs.

The general director of Customs, Samadhy Martínez said that they also usurped the Número de Identidad Tributaria (NIT) of a formally established company and when tracking these 10 operations they detected that they never reached the company.

The sub-director of Internal Taxes, Luis Cañas, said that to date they have managed to present 136 notices to the FGR which total US$123.4 million.

Zelaya expressed that they will not continue to tolerate these bad practices and calls on all taxpayers to maintain a proper tax behavior so that their companies are not affected.

The general director of Customs, Samadhy Martínez, expressed that they have been able to give timely follow-up to illicit operations, we continue with the firm commitment to combat smuggling.