Examples of using Missing trader in English and their translations into Slovak
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Missing traders then fail to remit the VAT to the national exchequer.
This type of fraud, as I havealready mentioned, is known as missing trader intra-Community fraud.
In Slovenia, a‘missing trader' may now be penalised by cancellation of its VAT registration.
The above-mentioned sudden and massive fraud phenomena very oftenhave an international dimension(e.g. so-called carousel and missing trader fraud).
The missing trader does not remit this 180 000 euro of VAT to its tax authority and disappears.
The first model set out underpoint 5.4.1 removes opportunities for‘missing trader' fraud by means of a far-reaching, compulsory mechanism of split payment.
In this case a missing trader cannot default on payment to the Treasury as it does not collect VAT from its customer.
The network aims to speed up information exchanges on a limited number of targetedcompanies which are suspected of being involved in missing trader fraud.
In the second step, the missing trader sells the goods to the buffer trader 1 at 1 080 000 euro(900 000 plus 180 000 euro of VAT).
At the moment,annual losses generated as a result of carrying out fictitious transactions involving missing traders is estimated at EUR 100 million(16% of the EU's actual resources).
Subsequently, the missing trader disappears without trace, which makes the tax collection impossible in the state in which goods or services are consumed.
At the request of the SCAC, the Commission has designed a specific form(Trend form)to indicate developments in the operations of Missing Trader Fraud.
Such fraud schemes can be very sophisticated involving missing traders in several Member States and causing damage to the financial interests of all Member States concerned.
In the UK alone, according to HMRC(5), losses of between3 billion and 4,5 billion euro in the tax year 2005-2006 could be attributable to so-called Missing Trader Intra-Community VAT fraud.
In addition, customs authorities identified several“missing traders'' and non-existent importers; leading to criminal investigations in several countries.
The UK National Audit Office(NAO) reported(5) that Danish tax authorities had informed them that they suspected some Danishcompanies were involved in supply chains with missing traders in the UK.
They provided many examples(additional VAT assessments, information about missing traders, corrections in VIES) in which the exchange of information without prior request had been valuable to them.
Three main types of evasion take place:(a) declaration of intra-Community deliveries whilst retaining goods for sale in the domestic market without VAT;(b) failure to pay VATdue on arrival in the Member State of destination;(c) missing trader fraud(7).
In addition, customs authorities succeeded in identifying several so-called missing traders and non-existent importers, triggering a number of criminal and administrative investigations in several countries.
These categories include, for example, information about VAT identification numbers allocated to taxable persons established in another Member State orabout taxable persons who are(potential) missing traders but whose VAT identification number has not been cancelled.
The fraud can be further complicated when the missing trader sells the goods to buffer traders, some of whom could be honest, to make it more difficult for tax authorities to trace the fraudulent scheme.
This would considerably improve Member States' chances of tackling complex fraudschemes more efficiently(e.g. carrousel frauds and missing trader fraud), and of reducing the possibility of irreparable financial losses.
I believe that when we talk of missing trader intra-Community fraud, attention must be paid to the measures that need to be taken in this temporary scheme that is intended to stop those abusing the VAT systems used in Europe.
For Member States' risk management systems to be effective andreduce the problem of missing traders, it is important that high-risk traders are checked immediately upon VIES registration.
Missing trader Ń A missing trader is a trader registered for VAT purposes who, potentially with a fraudulent intent, acquires or purports to acquire goods or services without paying VAT and supplies these goods or services with VAT, but does not remit the VAT collected to the national tax authority.
The latest estimate published by theBelgian Supreme Audit Institution quantified missing trader fraud of 94 million euro for 2009, 29 million euro for 2010, and 28 million euro for 201113.
Since VAT fraud primarilyoccurs in relation to cross-border trade(so-called carousel and missing trader fraud), the possibility of taking effective action by applying derogations in a single Member State will be very limited, and further harmonisation of the tax laws of the Member States will be necessary.
We made an information-gathering visit to the OECD and discussed questions relevant to the audit, such as the VAT revenue ratio,mutual assistance and exchanges of information on tax matters, missing trader fraud, MLCs, joint audits, and taxation of digitally supplied services and intangibles(e-commerce).
The notion of serious offences against the common system of value added tax(‘VAT') as established by Council Directive 2006/112/EC(8)(the ‘common VAT system') refers to the most serious forms of VAT fraud, in particular carrousel fraud,VAT fraud through missing traders, and VAT fraud committed within a criminal organisation, which create serious threats to the common VAT system and thus to the Union budget.