an investigation Civil Guard and Customs Inspection Service let it stay still inside Marina in total 20,231 bottles of spirits for tax evasion. this Fraud in Special Consumption Tax regulations The wine and spirits warehouse in Marina Alta is estimated at around 30,000 euros, although further inspections were carried out in the provinces of Alicante, Valencia and Castellón, and only one warehouse in the Valencian town of Riba-roja. Túria immobilized more bottles at a retail price of close to 139,000 euros.
this Alicante Command It launched its investigations last September after being alerted by the Financial Service of the Barcelona Civil Guard of some violations discovered during a series of inspections of stores selling alcoholic beverages to the public.
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It has been learned that the origin of these bottles is an alcoholic beverage factory located in the Marina Alta region and therefore the Tax Office was informed and the investigations between the Customs Surveillance Service and the Civil Guards from Alicante continue jointly.
After compiling all the information on possible violations against the Treasury, a factory and warehouse in Marina Alta and a municipal shop selling alcoholic beverages to the public were investigated on September 26. Ondara, they all belong to the same business group.
The inspection was carried out by the Financial Patrol of the Calp Company, the Customs Surveillance Service in Alicante and the Judicial Police of the Xàbia Civil Guard. Immobilized more than 20,000 bottles when different irregularities are discovered.
So they discovered alcoholic beverage bottles. without mandatory financial signsdrinks with fake labels in terms of batch, rating or capacity, as well as a significant number of empty bottle bodies carrying seals, in excellent condition for reuse.
Agents are also secret cabinIt was adjacent to the ship, and he concluded that it was sufficient indication to determine that the ship was there. Deliberately acting from the company to defraud the treasury, Therefore, investigations continued and second-stage inspections were held in three provinces of the Community.
Inspectors were assigned on 11 November to inspect 14 establishments in the Community of Valencia: Benidorm (5), Calp (2), Benissa (1), Finestrat (1), Ondara (1), Navarrés (1), Riba-red ( 1), Tens (1) and Torreblanca (1).
Fraudulent use of seals
The Civil Guard reported that in almost all of these inspections, irregularities in the field of special taxes were detected, similar to those detected at the first stage of the operation. All were closely related to the fraudulent use of seals that had to be affixed to alcohol bottles. Avoidance of paying excise duty or a payment less than due based on the alcohol grade of each product.
The Armed Institute draws attention to the importance of this action both in terms of tax evasion and consumer protection in the field of SCT in alcoholic beverages, and in the fight against fraud and unfair competition to the detriment of commercial law. this kind of product.
Source: Informacion
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