VAT intelligence team has intensified its crackdown against evaders across the country in a bid to offset the ongoing shortfall in revenue collection target.
It has carried out drives in three beauty parlours, in a cigarette factory, and in a posh shop of spectacles on Monday and Tuesday.
In three separate statements, the VAT Audit, Intelligence and Investigation Directorate gave details of its drives.
On Monday, the directorate conducted a drive in a shop of spectacles named Behi Vision Care at SubastuSuriya Trade Centre on Kamal Ataturk Avenue in the city's Banani area.
Assistant Director Shahana Shirin led the intelligence team and seized some documents. The shop owner concealed its actual rent of Tk 6,38,000 and showed Tk 1,20,000 as rent. Thus, he evaded VAT worth Tk 1.9 million.
The shop also concealed its actual sales information. It sold spectacles and related products worth Tk 12.5 million since January 2019, but did not show the sale in VAT office. The shop evaded VAT worth Tk 5,93,000 which is 5.0 per cent of the sale.
The company evaded total VAT worth Tk 2.4 million. The directorate forwarded the case to the Dhaka North Commissionerate for further investigation.
The team also filed a case of irregularities against a cigarette company in Faridpur after carrying out a drive.
On August 12, a team of VAT intelligence carried out a drive in Faridpur Tobacco Factory and found some irregularities, including establishing godown without declaration, bandroll and cigarette in the godown, and no VAT registration certificate in visible places.
The VAT intelligence also detected primary evidences of VAT evasion worth Tk 30 million in three beauty parlours at Gulshan in the city. Deputy directors of VAT intelligence Nazmun Nahar Kaisar and Ferdousy Mahbub led a team on August 16.
The parlours are - Javed Habib Beauty Parlour, Jahid Khan Bridal Makeover and Bridal Studio, and Aroma Thai Spa.
Of the parlours, Javed Habib Parlour took rent two floors of a building at Tk 0.8 million per month, but paid VAT on Tk 50,000 by concealing the actual rent. The team also detected VAT evasion worth Tk 16 million through concealment of service receivers' information.
Another bridal parlour was selling different luxury dresses and jewelries for brides, hiding actual information to the VAT authority.
It was also running business with old and cancelled BIN (business identification number). The VAT intelligence team found VAT evasion worth Tk 5.0 million by the parlour.
The team found similar irregularities in Aroma Thai Spa. It detected huge mismatch in documents and VAT evasion worth Tk 7.0 million.
Those three entities did not submit returns regularly and did not comply with the VAT rules to display VAT certificate in a visible place on their business premises.
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