Trade: 100,000 Algerians registered in the National List of Cheaters

National list of Cheaters includes currently more than 99,000 cheaters, who have been registered for various reasons at the request of the services of customs, tax and trade, and the Bank of Algeria.

Algerian News Agency (APS) quoted a source from the Directorate of Taxes as saying, that until the month of July 99,111 cheaters were registered in this list, including 65% (64 327 registered) representing companies that have not yet deposited the legal files in their social accounts from 2008 to 2011. 

General Directorate of Taxation, which belongs to the Ministry of Finance, said that “in the absence of a settlement and re-positioning, these companies were excluded from conducting foreign trade and public underwriting deals.

Commerce Minister Mostapha Ben Bada, confirmed last week that more than 7,000 traders have been registered in the national list of cheaters in 2013 at the request of the Ministry of Commerce.

According to the Executive Decree 84/13, issued on 6 February 2013, that was identified for the organization and conduct of the National list of cheaters, the cheaters who are eligible to register, are people who are interested and materialists and have committed “serious violations in the commercial, banking and financial regulation and legislation, as well as the absence of legal deposit of social accounts.”

The same source, added that the irregularities which consist the reasons of registering the involved in the list are linked especially to “paying the tax and fraud and authorization in the field of taxes, customs and trade and transfer of tax and customs advantages, trade and consumer protection and health.