Another case of tax evasion of proportions at a ride sharing company. Undeclared income and withholding tax
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The administrator of some ride-sharing companies was placed under judicial control by anti-corruption prosecutors in a case in which he is accused of tax evasion of over 28 million lei, informs Agerpres.
According to a press release from the DNA sent, the prosecutors from the Section for combating crimes assimilated to corruption crimes ordered the initiation of the criminal action and the taking of the measure of judicial control, for a period of 60 days, starting on February 12, against PIC, administrator of several commercial companies, for the commission of two crimes of tax evasion, in a continuous form.
The anti-corruption prosecutors note in the ordinance that, during the period August 2023 – October 2025, the administrator in law and/or in fact of several commercial companies with an object of activity in the alternative transport of people, together with other persons (suspects in question), would have acted with intent and on the basis of the same criminal resolution, in order to evade the payment of tax obligations.
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“Specifically, he would have hidden the taxable source through the unregistered payment of salary rights to several cooperating drivers, through operations that would not have been highlighted in the accounting nor declared to the fiscal authorities. Through these actions, a damage in the amount of 17,969,251 lei would have been caused to the state budget, representing taxes and salary contributions with withholding tax and labor insurance contribution”, it says the investigators.
At the same time, the prosecutors say that, in the same period and through the same method, he, together with other people, would have omitted the registration in the accounting records of some operations and would not have declared the incomes achieved, causing an additional damage to the state budget in the amount of 10,155,319 lei, representing the collected VAT and profit tax.
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“PIC, together with the other persons involved, would have recruited drivers and would have concluded with them contracts of convenience, on the basis of which the cars were made available free of charge to commercial companies acting as transport operators”, state the investigators, who add that, after the start of the activity, from the sums collected from the ride-sharing platforms, the people who coordinated the transport operators would have kept a 10% commission, and the difference would have been transferred drivers, without declaring and paying the salary contributions due to the state budget, which would have led to them obtaining net incomes higher than the legal ones.
According to the evidence administered so far, this mechanism would have been used, on average, for periods of approximately one year, after which the activity would have been transferred to other companies with the same object of activity, established by people from the same circle, by moving the cooperating drivers to the new companies, in order to avoid criminal liability and to make possible checks more difficult, says DNA.
