The Hadera tax assessor and employees of the National Bookkeeping Unit at the Tax Authority recently conducted an audit in the cities of Hadera, Baqa al-Gharbia, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, and Binyamina.
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As part of the operation, 33 businesses in the construction, trade and service sectors were inspected and it was found that 17 of them did not record income or did not keep books properly.
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The operation was preceded by secret review shopping and early observations.
The operation also conducted 10 inspections to enforce the law to reduce the use of cash, and one violation was found for paying by check without specifying the name of the payee.
As part of the operation, the inspectors arrived at a kindergarten in the city of Hadera and found that payments for dozens of deferred checks totaling 218,440 shekels had not been recorded. The kindergarten owners claimed that they were accustomed to recording receipts when the checks were paid.
At a restaurant in the city of Hadera, inspectors checked the business owner's payment app and found that 2,000 shekels of revenue had not been recorded. And what did the restaurant owner claim? "In good faith, I thought Shabit was tax-exempt.".
At the nursery in Baqa al-Gharbia, a covert audit was conducted several days before the purchase operation. Afterwards, during the audit, the business books were examined and no record of the audit purchase was found.
A bank transfer of 4,000 shekels was found at a car accessories store in Pardes Hanna that was not recorded in the business's books. The business owner claimed: "This was work I did for a friend and the registration was missed.".
In addition, the inspectors arrived at the Pardes Hanna bakery, checked the business's credit card statement, and noticed that 11 receipts received in a period of about two weeks prior to the audit date, totaling over 1,000 shekels, were not recorded in the business's books.
