The State Administration of Taxation of China exposed 5 cases of fraudulent export tax refunds and tax personnel violating disciplines and laws

China News Service, Beijing, September 28 (Reporter Zhao Jianhua) On the 28th, the State Administration of Taxation of China exposed five cases of fraudulent export tax refunds and tax personnel violating disciplines and laws, involving Hunan, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Shenzhen and other places. Those involved were punished accordingly.

Among the persons involved in this exposure, some used illegal purchase of export declaration information, false settlement of foreign exchange funds, and false invoices to defraud export tax rebates by forging export business without real transactions; some used the form of "separation of invoices and goods" to apply other people's goods transaction information to forge purchase and sales businesses, colluding with "underground banks" False collection of foreign exchange to defraud tax refunds; some falsely declare export commodity items, illegally declare goods that are not subject to tax refunds as tax refund commodities, and obtain high tax refunds; some sign false transaction contracts, issue false invoices without real transactions, and assemble documents to pretend to be normal export business enterprises to obtain export tax refunds.

Export tax rebates are an important policy introduced by China in accordance with international practice to support the stable development of foreign trade. Some criminals regard it as a "cash cow" and defraud export tax rebates through covert and gang-based methods. In recent years, in the face of new tax fraud techniques, China's tax authorities have continued to improve the tax supervision system in the field of export tax rebates, giving full play to the role of the eight departments including taxation and public security as a regular joint crackdown on tax-related crimes, so as to crack down on the entire chain of tax-related crimes. Data show that in the first half of this year, tax authorities across the country investigated and dealt with 32,400 companies suspected of tax fraud and recovered 4.6 billion yuan in export tax refund losses.

Fraudulent export tax rebates not only erode national tax benefits, but also disrupt fair and orderly market order and squeeze the living space of law-abiding foreign trade companies. Cao Yue, a professor at the School of Business Administration of Hunan University, said that the tax authorities’ investigation and exposure of the cases sent a clear signal that illegal activities will be punished by law. Qu Junyu, an associate professor at Guizhou University Law School, said that the cost of defrauding export tax refunds is far more than paying back taxes, and also facing administrative and even criminal accountability. (over)