system of tax administration (SAT) identified a new scheme to evade taxes using phantom companies.
The network of tax evasion involves more than 13 thousand partners, shareholders and legal representatives of 600 companies, according to a report by the newspaper Reforma.
The central Manager of planning and programming of federal tax audit of the SAT, Samuel Arturo Magaña Espinosa, explained that this scheme is being used to avoid the payment of the tax on the income.
The companies hire so-called services through phantom companies, then they outsource to other companies facade, to form a simulated supply chain.
The scheme involves companies paying of salaries and non-existent benefits using improperly the regime related to wages.
Find out: https://t.co/s46ylUkXpn – SATMX2 (@SATMX) November 7, 2018 although he avoided giving names, the SAT official said publicly or politically exposed persons. “What I’m going is that there are large companies or people from the world of sport,” he said, according to a report by El Financiero.
Samuel Arturo Magaña Espinosa, Central planning and audit Federal Prosecutor of the SAT Program Manager speaks of evasion pay tax through figure tax simulation through assimilated to wage #MaríaInésContigo @SeniRomero pic.twitter.com/Ct7hwlHkFS – 88.9 news (@889Noticias) November 7, 2018 Espinosa Magaña alerted there with evasion amounts ranging from one to 120 million pesos.
SAT even said to have identified a first case of a taxpayer who used this scheme, so they invited him to pay more than 161 million pesos (corresponding to the income tax of five fiscal years) to prevent the initiation of criminal proceedings.
