Fines From False Declarations, Fraud In Taxation Reach DZD 20 Billion In 6 months

General Directorate of Taxation subjected over 17685 companies and traders to control operations during the last six months, which resulted in tax corrections, and fines of more than DZD 20 billion dinars, or 2,000 billion centimes, against the taxpayers from false statements, at a time when the courts began in the collection of fines by using physical coercion within two months of the fine’s financial judgment, in order to avoid repeating the accumulation of judicial fines that exceeded DZD 7,000 billion, and the financial sector remains unable to collect them.

According to the figures of the General Directorate of Taxation, the processes of fiscal control, during the period of 6 months of last year, included 17.685 cases and financial transactions, which ended with the issuance of fines worth almost DZD 20 billion, due to the upward trend of the studied cases, at the time when the value of the fines that are imposed have fallen compared to last year by 25%.

Director of research and investigations, on behalf of the directorate level, Belkacem Arab Yacef, told APS that the process of control recruited 900 checkers on the national territory, and included three types of audits, the first is control of documents, the second is the external tax control, and the last is the control of assessments, as the control of the documents includes different operation of general tax checking by all the structures which belong to the General Directorates of Taxation.

In this category the tax control is done on the documents and bills of sale or purchase, and accounting documents as well, and the tax administration resorts in cases of necessity to scrutinizing other documents on 25% of taxpayers each year, according to the same spokesman.

Among the nearly DZD 20 billion that have been recorded by the operational services of the Directorate of Research and Investigations within six months, more than 200 billion of them were recorded thanks to the scrutiny of the documents that are contained in 19 files. 

If the checkers showed doubts in the wake of the termination of the general controls or scrutiny on documents, they are going to the external audit, as they move to the concerned institution to conduct the appropriate investigations, and these audits, which included 1.696 cases, resulted in imposing fines worth DZD 16 billion, while traders are often under censorship in terms of in-depth audit of the situation of the total tax.

This process targets some of traders who are subject to the tax, when the directorate decides to investigate about their undeclared incomes on the basis of their wealth or their lifestyle.

Control over the assessments, includes real estate transactions through the comparison between the declared price and the its value in the market, as the control process within this part, results on imposing fines worth more than DZD 3 billion.