SAN GREGORIO MAGNO – Delegated by the Public Prosecutor of Salerno, the Financiers of the Provincial Command executed a preventive seizure decree up to the amount of 700 thousand euros, charged to the administrators of two San Gregorio Magno companies that deal with the processing and sale of marbles. The provision of the investigating judge at the Court of Salerno was adopted on the basis of the findings acquired by the soldiers of the Tenenza di Battipaglia during the tax audit of one of the two companies. In particular, it emerged that the staff were formally hired by one company, only to be effectively employed by the other. In the abstract, it would be a sort of outsourcing, a practice allowed by the Legislator – under certain conditions – to allow certain secondary services to be directly contracted out to external companies. The risk, however, is that the company that is “in charge” of the workforce is only a corporate screen, to allow the person who actually employs it to take advantage, in this way, of an illegitimate reduction in taxes.
In the specific case, the effectively operating company was able to account for invoices relating to personnel costs quantified at one million and 600 thousand euros, also unduly deducting VAT for 350,000 euros. At the same time, the one operating only “on paper” did not make any tax payments, despite all those invoices issued. The overall damage to the Treasury was therefore determined at over 700 thousand euros. At the initiative of the Public Prosecutor of Salerno, the Gip of the Court at the headquarters therefore ordered the seizure of assets in the availability of the suspects, up to the amount of the ascertained evasion, to ensure the recovery of the sums stolen from the Treasury. During the searches, the Financiers have so far found and protected liquidity on current accounts and a warehouse, for a total value that exceeds 700,000 euros. The two entrepreneurs are now called to answer for the issue and use of invoices for non-existent operations, failure to pay VAT and fraudulent labor supply, charges for which they risk up to 8 years of imprisonment.