DOJ files tax evasion charges against 3 industrial corporations

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JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla yesterday said the agency has filed charges against three industrial corporations before the Court of Tax Appeals “for maliciously and willfully employing dirty business tactics to purposely defraud the State of its tax dues.”

Remulla said the filing of the charges stemmed from the complaint of the Bureau of Internal Revenue alleging that the corporations and their officers engaged in buying and/or using fictitious receipts from “ghost companies to maliciously evade the payment of taxes.”

“Specifically lodged before the tax court were 14 information against Total Metal Corporation, four against Equator Energy Corporation and two against Limhuaco Metal Industrial Incorporated,” Remulla said in a statement, adding the charges were filed last January 24.

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“All for violations of Sections 254 and 255, in relation to Section 253 (d) and 256 of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997, as amended,” he added.

The DOJ chief said defrauding the government of tax due is similar to robbing the public of essential services they deserve and need, adding the government will not allow such things to happen.

The BIR filed the case before the DOJ under its Run After Fake Transactions program.

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