The Italian State Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation to determine if Amazon Responsibility for Unpainting VAT in online sales denied 1.2 billion euros in revenue, two sent sources.
In the focus, the investigations of the Milan Office of the State Prosecutor and the Tax Police of the AMAZON-based AMASONE, Luxembourg due to possible tax scams in Italy in the period 2019. until 2021, Sources said.
Taking into account penalties and interest, Amazon could grow into three billion euros.
According to sources, Amazon algorithm allows sellers outside the EU, mostly to Chinese, to sell goods in Italy without revealing identity, which allows them to avoid paying value added taxes (VAT). According to Italian laws, the responsibility for defeasing VAT also bears the mediator whose platform for the online store vendor is used.
Amazon did not immediately answer the Reuters’ query to comment on investigation information. In July last year, the Italian financial police prevented about 121 million euros of the Amazon Branch Based on the investigation of the State Prosecutor on the possible tax deceit and exploitation of workers.
(Vijesti.ba/hina)
