ANAF is preparing to audit individuals who conduct commercial activities on the Internet and receive cash, announced Teodor Alexandru Georgescu, director general of anti-fraud at the institution. They will begin to monitor the duty of couriers to transfer data on cash payment.

ANAF has almost completed the development of a program that makes it much easier to identify people with risk criteria in this area of ​​online trading. He will go for testing soon.

“In the absence of this program to run all risk indicators in the database, this is done from the first month of reporting (no couriers) by running each risk indicator in the database,” he said.

A control operation will be launched this month, says ANAF representative.

“It was given in the territory (Circular No. We identified from one courier 22,000 individuals who received refunds to the collection account of approximately 1.8 billion lei and did not submit any tax returns for this money,” he added.

According to him, not all 22 thousand people will be controlled.

What ANAF will consider in controls

“We will not consider people who sold a children’s bicycle on OLX. We are targeting people who are engaged in commercial activities,” said the ANAF representative.

According to him, for people with an income of more than 500,000 lei, the first stage will be a documentary check, that is, a control carried out at the ANAF headquarters, and a tax decision will be issued at the end of the check.

“Other people with amounts below 500,000 lei will receive a notice home from ANAF about compliance. If they do not comply, there will be control,” he said.

• One person collected 44 million lei and sold cosmetics

Courier companies send data on rambrus payments to ANAF through declaration 395

“Courier companies interfere in the economic circle of this trade. This trade in Romania has a peculiarity compared to other countries. Business partners of some suppliers do not comply with tax legislation. We receive data on application 395,” he said.

In the first 3 months, he says, they received 17 million items with refunds.

“In terms of volume, it is somewhere over 5 billion lei. We are in the process of creating a complete database. We received applications from the main courier companies, namely 23 companies. We are far from a complete understanding of this phenomenon. This declaration will have to be submitted by all courier companies, regardless of whether they carry out operations with cash on delivery,” said the representative of ANAF.

According to him, certain elements of stolen identities, which are practiced by customers of courier companies, have been discovered.

“He prefers to work under another person’s name so that it is more difficult to identify him. They have been identified. The deceased persons, on whose behalf the operations were carried out, were also identified. Please take all possible measures to identify business partners,” he added Theodore Alexander Georgescu.