About 5,000 tons of textiles imported from Turkey were taxed through a mobile cash register, ANAF said.

Tax inspectors found a taxpayer who imported 4,861 tons of textiles from Turkey in the period 2020-2022 and took obvious measures to avoid paying tax obligations calculated as additional fees in the amount of 36.68 million lei (19.91 million lei VAT, 16.77 million lei income tax).

“In the customs declarations, 6,837 different or identical goods were imported in very large quantities. The largest part of them, 79.29%, was made up of total sales in Romania, made by issuing tax receipts through a single cash register, which is taxed on a mobile basis,” the institution says.

Tax revenues included large quantities of goods that far exceeded the needs of an individual, at ridiculous prices.

example:

• fiscal check No. 04/01/2021 for 566 pajamas at a price of 1.18 lei/pc. and 456 sets at a price of 1.51 lei/piece;

• fiscal check No. 04/01/2021 – 396 shorts at a price of 0.90 lei/piece, 248 vests at a price of 5.10 lei/piece. and 500 blouses at a price of 1.43 lei/piece;

• fiscal check No. 04/01/2021 – 28 suits at the price of 19.20 lei/piece, 331 tights at the price of 0.51 lei, 135 shirts at the price of 1.53 lei/piece, 402 blouses at the price of 1.37 lei/piece. and 216 pairs of clogs at a price of 5.10 lei/pair).

“Thus, a well-founded suspicion was outlined regarding the authenticity of the commercial activity carried out by the company, the issuance of fiscal checks, which had the sole role of masking sales at reduced prices. The actual sale was made at the market price to traders who later resell the goods. The consequence of this phenomenon is the reduction of the taxable base for both VAT and income tax,” says ANAF.