Thanh Hoa Tax Department is closely coordinating with the Police to strictly handle people who buy and sell illegal invoices.

Thanh Hoa Tax Department is closely coordinating with the Police to strictly
handle people who buy and sell illegal invoices. Source: Internet

Recently, a number of press agencies have reported that the Criminal Investigation Police Department on Corruption, Economy and Smuggling (PC03), Thanh Hoa Provincial Police has issued a decision to prosecute the case related to the illegal trading line of value-added invoices with the total value of goods and services on the invoice totalling nearly VND100 billion.

Regarding this issue, Thanh Hoa Tax Department has reported to the General Department of Taxation. Accordingly, the subjects involved in the purchase and sale of invoices include: Nguyen Thi Phuong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phuong Anh Trading Building Stock Company (Phương Anh Company); Le Thi Hong Linh, Director of Hung Trang Co., Ltd. (Hung Trang Company) and Dinh Thi Nga, Accountant of Phuong Anh Company, have the same registered business address in Dong Tho Ward, Thanh Hoa City.

According to the Thanh Hoa Tax Department, the Tax Department has directed the Thanh Hoa - Dong Son City Regional Tax Branch and related units to step up the inspection and review of the use of invoices, detecting cases with signs of violations to provide information to police agencies to investigate, verify and strictly handle violations.

The prosecution of the case and the accused against Nguyen Thi Phuong - Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Phuong Anh Company and some related individuals is the result of coordination closely and effectively with Thanh Hoa Tax Department and police agencies at all levels in the fight and prevention of crimes in the tax and invoice fields.

Specifically, in 2020, through tax management and inspection of tax records, the tax sector discovered that the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phuong Anh Construction Trading Service and Construction Joint Stock Company had signs of tax violations and illegal use of invoices. The Tax authority has collected and consolidated documents proving signs of violations and transferred it to the Thanh Hoa City Police for investigation and handling.

At the same time, Hung Trang Company, led by Le Thi Hong Linh, was also prosecuted due to its association with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phuong Anh Company (Le Thi Hong Linh is Phuong’s daughter, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phuong Anh Company).

Thanh Hoa Tax Department said that on May 5, 2021, the Thanh Hoa - Dong Son city Regional Tax Branch received a notice of the results of solving crime information No. 452/CSĐT dated April 29, 2021 issued by Investigation Police Department of Thanh Hoa province.

According to Thanh Hoa Provincial Police, they issued Decision No. 85/CSKT dated April 29, 2021 on prosecuting a criminal case of “illegal printing, distribution, sale and purchase of invoices and documents of state budget payment according to the provisions of Article 203 of the Penal Code for the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phuong Anh Company”.

Currently, Thanh Hoa Tax Department is continuing to review all businesses that use illegal invoices of these two companies to strictly handle them in accordance with the regulations, avoiding tax losses for the state budget.

A representative of Thanh Hoa Tax Department also said that in the future, tax authorities at all levels will continue to strengthen the inspection of tax declarations and invoices in order to detect and promptly prevent businesses with signs of tax violations, especially for newly established businesses; the enterprise does not operate at the registered address with the tax authority, or the business is temporarily suspended.

At the same time, Thanh Hoa Tax Department will actively provide information to the police to verify, investigate and strictly handle the taxpayers who use illegal invoices, fraudulently evade taxes; defrauding, making false records to appropriate value-added tax refunds; print invoices, order invoice printing, create fake e-invoices; buying, selling or using illegal invoices to gain illicit profits.