The President of ANAF announces a kind of “OLX of the state”, where Romanians can buy confiscated goods. How the IRS is catching OnlyFans dodgers

The president of ANAF, Adrian Nica, is preparing the largest public platform for the sale of confiscated goods, a kind of “OLX of the state”, where Romanians can buy goods confiscated following controls.

Adrian Nica/PHOTO: Facebook/George Sergiu Niculescu

Adrian Nica told CNN's Antena 3 that ANAF checked thousands of work points.

“I would divide this trade into two: the online one and the checks in the warehouses. I won't name names now, because it's not, it's not ok to say that – but ANAF had a large action in one of the country's big complexes, so to speak.

There we checked 1,100 warehouses, it was a large action, we seized the goods related to 30 warehouses, and at the moment our colleagues are still there and monitoring. We are talking about a wholesaler”, said the president of ANAF, on Antena 3 CNN.

The head of ANAF says that the institution ran into a fluid online market, difficult to track and built around ephemeral identities: with each order, another site, another company and another supplier appear.

“Another action taken by our colleagues and aimed at the type of sites you refer to: every Romanian today has a smartphone or access to a social network.

From there a profile is made, he receives a certain picture on his phone with his hobby, let's say, or with the things he likes and when he orders in the back, from each order, it's a different site. We had an action here that my anti-fraud colleagues confiscated somewhere around 11 million”adds Adrian Nica, president of ANAF.

Basically, a Romanian sees an advertisement, orders the garment or the product, and the “disappeared” company behind it is impossible to trace. Such business models are created to avoid taxes, and ANAF has recognized the enormous difficulty of identifying who the real owner is.

For the first time, ANAF admits that the pace and volume of confiscations are so high that the institution needs its own platform for capitalization.

“With the goods that we confiscate we now have in the project, we have a project in PNRR to design a platform, we internally call it the ANAF's OLX, because we want to make this whole process and the goods that we confiscate transparent”. he announced.

Before being put up for sale, the goods are checked by ANPC and consumer protection institutions, to determine whether they can be legally consumed.

And yes, ANAF will have dedicated people to take care of the institution's “online store”: “Unfortunately, yes, our colleagues will do this as well.”

How ANAF identifies those who earn money on OnlyFans

Also during the show, the president of ANAF stated that it was “very simple” for the tax inspectors to find the 49-year-old man from Romania who obtained 700,000 euros through the OnlyFans platform and did not declare it to the state.

“How did we get to it? Very simple. We received information from the external payments, in the present case, the external receipts of these citizens. We, through digitization, have access to the database, the payment database of the European Union and more.

There is a database that we access and see there any payment made by a Romanian citizen from anywhere in the world. We looked in the database and found that a gentleman from there, a gentleman, I specify, managed to collect from these platforms no less than 3.6 million lei”, said Adrian Nica.

He explained that ANAF inspectors then checked the state records to see if the man paid taxes to the Romanian state for this amount of money.

“And for my colleagues it was a real surprise to see that a man collected the highest amount from this platform. We then looked at his personal numerical code, that maybe the man thought to declare. We found that he did not declare the taxes. On this occasion we impose on him”said the head of ANAF.

The President of ANAF added that for now 103 such content creators are verified, but others will follow.

“We have the first batch, so to speak, of 103 people. There are another 390 to come and so on, because this is a continuous process. We are looking at the receipts they make. (…) We are talking about an undeclared base of 64 million. It is an industry that they must understand, like any citizen must declare their taxes and duties, especially since it is an industry that makes money and a lot and easily”said Nica.

Asked if it is true that OnlyFans pays taxes related to the income obtained from intellectual property rights of only 6%, the head of ANAF confirmed.

“At the moment, yes, but we will make proposals to change the legislation”he added.

Adrian Nica, about the checks on “bombers” with luxury cars

In October, Adrian Nica warned those who cannot justify “the expensive car of over 100,000 euros with which he walks around the city, defying some of us” that “he will have a control from ANAF in the next period to clarify why the data he records”.

Currently, he stated that no seizure has been made yet

“At this stage we are in control of 49 people and we still have another 300 in the process of analysis. We have not confiscated any cars to date.

We observed here one and the same phenomenon from the famous maneleist from Argeș county who, once the ANAF came, until we issue the title, alienates his assets”. said Adrian Nica,

The head of ANAF says that those who make fictitious or non-substantial purchases will also be controlled, and in about two weeks they will present how many cars have been confiscated, noting that among them there are interesting cases.

The President of ANAF admits that the people sent to the field, to verify such profiles, are nowhere near rewarded at the level of risk and pressure to which they are exposed.

Asked how much it takes “a good man from ANAF” which goes after a “bomber“, Nica answers that around 7,000 lei.

“It depends on the position, let's say, if he is not a head of service, around 7,400-7,600 lei. I want to tell you that it is not easy for them to do such checks: we are talking about a profile of a person in society who has never considered the possibility of paying his taxes, and practically ANAF inspectors are the first to meet him”explains the head of ANAF.

He added that there were no cases of physical aggression in the context of the checks, but the danger is real, and his people call on the police and gendarmes.

In order to protect the inspectors, ANAF decided not to send people from the same county to “difficult” local, but to exchange teams between regions.

“But it is a delicate action by them, especially since many live in those areas and, in order to prevent situations where an inspector from his county goes to control a person who has not declared his income from that county for a long time, we decided to bring inspectors to cross the areas, which obviously generates some costs for us, because we have travel costs that we bear from the budget that we have“, says Adrian Nica.