/ world today news/ The tax inspectors have created a brand new special unit that will catch VAT fraud at the border. Nearly 250 employees of the revenue agency will strictly monitor the movement of risky goods entering our country from Greece and Romania, BTV informs.
At the border point Captain Petko Voivoda – to Svilengrad in the direction of Greece, very soon tax teams will carry out round-the-clock physical and documentary control. Risky goods entering from Greece are targeted. Most often, these are fruits and vegetables, as well as sugar and flour, which are now easily brought into our country at understated invoice values, and the losses for the native producer and for the tax authorities are significant.
In order to put an end to fraud, the tax authorities are taking action. 24 inspectors will work here alone. And because the tax authorities needed fresh additions, they announced a competition in which 50 people fought for one place. A few years ago, a bus full of dangerous food and without any documents was intercepted, which entered our country from Greece without any problems.
Our investigation then foiled smuggling for thousands, but did not stop fraud at the border. Today, the revenue agency has firmly taken up this task. The tax authorities, like police officers – with reflective vests, stop sticks and technical tracking devices follow the trail of the money that is lost on the road between Greece and Bulgaria.
The control will be 24/7 and will start from the border itself “Our teams will have the right to physical and documentary control and the drivers must assist them. Mainly goods will be checked”, explained Bojana Ilieva – press officer of the NRA-Plovdiv. However, the control does not end here – special teams will also be lurking in the interior of the country, where the trucks will be tracked and checked again if necessary.
“A seal or a tracking device can be placed on each truck, at the discretion of the tax official, to ensure that the goods will arrive at the address specified in the bill of lading,” adds Ilieva. The drivers did not like the news that the tax authorities will drive them away from the border. There will be dozens of tax patrols in southeastern Bulgaria alone.
Similar special teams will also operate along the border with Romania. The control will be useful both for the treasury and for domestic producers, for whom dumping from unregulated imports is detrimental. Tax control at the borders starts on January 1.
Already in the first hours of the new year, experts will be on the lookout for violators. The trucks have no right not to stop when they see the tax official’s stop sign, and if they miss a check, it will certainly make their journey more difficult, because the teams are in constant mobile communication and the shipment will surely be intercepted somewhere in the interior of the country. Instructions in several languages about the actions and powers of the tax teams will be printed on brochures and on signs that will soon be placed at all border points with Greece and Romania.
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