In a tax investigation conducted by the National Taxation Bureau for the year until June, targeting corporations that filed consumption tax refunds, the total amount of additional taxation was about 37.2 billion yen, the highest ever. , I understand from the summary of the National Tax Agency.
Of this amount, 11.1 billion yen is associated with fraudulent refunds made by means of inflating purchases, etc., and the National Tax Agency will continue to conduct a strict investigation, saying that it is particularly malicious.
Consumption tax has a refund system in which if the amount paid for purchases is greater than the amount received for selling the product, the difference will be refunded by the government.
According to the National Tax Agency, the total amount of additional taxation due to tax investigations conducted by the National Taxation Bureau of Japan on corporations that filed consumption tax refunds for the year up to June this year is approximately 37.2 billion yen. It means that it was the most since 2006 when it started.
Of this amount, 11.1 billion yen was associated with fraudulent refunds carried out by methods such as inflating purchases and making fictitious accounts, more than triple the previous year's 3.4 billion yen.
In one case, even though there were no actual transactions, a large number of high-end watches were purchased on the books and sold to foreign tourists tax-free, in order to illegally receive consumption tax refunds. about it.
The National Tax Agency will continue to strictly investigate the fraudulent refund of consumption tax as a particularly malicious act of defrauding the government of money.