On the 16th, reporters learned from Ningbo Customs that the city uncovered a major case of tax refund fraud for exported clothing and destroyed a tax fraud criminal gang involving 17 cities in 8 provinces, including Zhejiang and Jiangxi. The case involved exporting goods worth 137 million yuan and defrauding the state of 22 million yuan in tax refunds.
In June 2019, according to the case clues jointly issued by the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration of Taxation, the Ministry of Public Security, and the People’s Bank of China, Ningbo Customs, Ningbo Municipal Taxation Bureau, Ningbo Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the People’s Bank of China The Ningbo Central Branch jointly established the “P14” task force to crack down on export tax refund fraud, and established that the main suspect, Yang, a native of Ningbo, was the starting point for investigating the case.
After four months of investigation and evidence collection, the task force finally found out that the criminal gang headed by Yang actually controlled four garment companies in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province that made false value-added payments He illegally purchased export cargo information from a freight forwarding company in the name of Ningbo Foreign Trade Company D and purchased foreign exchange through illegal channels, defrauding the state of 22 million yuan in tax refunds.
In August 2020, the People’s Court of Beilun District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, ruled in the first instance that Ningbo D Foreign Trade Company was guilty of defrauding export tax refunds and falsely issuing invoices, and was sentenced to a fine of 22.1 million yuan; the principal culprit Yang was guilty of defrauding exports. For the crime of tax refund and false invoicing, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined 22.1 million yuan.
It is reported that according to the provisions of Articles 204 and 205 of the “Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China”: using false export declarations or other deceptive means to defraud the state of export tax refunds, the amount is particularly huge Or if there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the amount of taxes obtained by defrauding, or his property shall be confiscated. Anyone who falsely issues special value-added tax invoices or other false invoices used to defraud export tax refunds or tax deductions, if the amount of falsely issued tax is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment. </p
