Minsk organization for repair of cars underpaid in the budget more than 1.2 million — in the UK told the details

The Investigative Department of the UCK in the Minsk region completed a preliminary investigation of a criminal case on large-scale tax evasion by artificially splitting businesses and creating a network of interdependent organizations. This was reported in the press service of the UK, writes sb.by.

According to the investigation, the 51-year-old Minsk citizen was the founder and director of a private commercial unitary enterprise that carried out maintenance and repair of trucks. In an effort to reduce the tax burden, he organized a scheme that formally divided a single business between several business entities.

“In fact, the trucks were repaired in the same boxes, by the same staff and for the same customers. But on paper, the business was divided into three independent business entities, the IC noted. The main company worked under the general system of taxation with VAT and income tax. In 2021 and 2022, the defendant registered two more commercial organizations and transferred them to a simplified VAT-free tax system.

To give the scheme the appearance of legality as a nominal founder of one of the firms, a friend of a businessman who had nothing to do with real management and financial flows was involved.

Revenue from the provision of services was distributed so that new organizations did not exceed the established limits for the application of the simplified taxation system. At the same time, the tax base of the main company was artificially lowered, which allowed to reduce the size of mandatory payments to the budget.

As a result of the introduction of deliberately false information in tax returns for the period from 2021 to 2024, VAT and income tax totaling more than о 1.2 million were not received to the budget.

“During the investigation, the accused fully admitted his guilt and gave detailed testimony about the mechanism for committing the crime. Aware of the gravity of the crime, he sincerely repented and before the completion of the investigation voluntarily compensated the damage caused to the budget in full, as well as paid penalties and fines imposed by the tax authorities.

The actions of the 51-year-old businessman were qualified by the investigators of the UCK in the Minsk region under Part 2 of Article 243 (tax evasion by deliberately understating the tax base and entering into tax returns (calculations) knowingly false information that caused damage in a large amount) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. The criminal case was transferred to the prosecutor for further decision.

At the direction of the fraudsters, the woman left $18,000 near a road sign, and then took out a loan for $15,000.