Recently, the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), together with the help of Eurojust, stopped an enormous VAT fraud scheme, kudos for the work done! The fraudsters defrauded the Dutch tax authority for €9 million between 2017 and 2020.[1] In this blog post we try to reconstruct the VAT fraud scheme. Important to note is that we’re basing our research on publicly available resources only. Therefore, it might be possible that we miss some links within the fraudulent value chain. Still, the reconstruction can serve as an example, because it does include the most critical aspects of the VAT fraud scheme: fraudulent companies not paying VAT. After reconstructing the VAT fraud scheme, we will show how by making use of modern technologies, tax authorities can find these fraudsters in an earlier stage, potentially saving millions of euros.
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