A transportation services business owner from Bnei Brak is accused of submitting incorrect annual VAT returns and attempting to evade VAT payment in a total amount of 273,236 shekels.
According to the indictment filed with the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, for several years the 46-year-old business owner provided transportation services without registering as an 'authorized dealer.' Instead, the defendant issued receipts and tax invoices in the name of his wife, who was registered as an 'exempt dealer' in the cosmetics sector.
In total, the defendant issued 89 tax invoices and receipts in his wife's name, for a total amount of approximately 1.6 million shekels, the tax included in which amounts to 273,236 shekels.
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In addition, Trabelsi is accused of submitting 4 annual declarations to the regional VAT office in his wife's name, in which he reported a transaction turnover lower than the ceiling above which one must register as an 'authorized dealer'. This is when in reality the transaction turnover was higher than that.
""In doing so, the defendant allegedly acted to evade VAT payment through fraud, deceit, and filing incorrect annual declarations," the Tax Authority says.
The indictment was filed by Attorney Gal Ostriak, from the Central District Legal Unit, and relates to an audit case of the Gush Dan VAT.
