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15 minutes You have already written it before September 1. a transition period was announced. That is, the inspectors of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI) only warned those who did not comply with the obligation to declare the SDK before the car entered Lithuania (if it was bought abroad).
The STI hopes that tens of millions of euros can be “recovered” from the black accounts of the automotive sector this year.
How did you do the explanatory preventive work, was it effective? What will the ITS wear from September? We asked Rolandas Puncevičius, Senior Advisor to the ITS Control Department, for these and other things.
Understand instantly
- All vehicles in Lithuania from May 1. you must have a single SDK. They can only be sold and registered with this code.
- The owner who offers to buy the vehicle must post the SDK prominently in the sales announcements, exhibitors / markets.
Inspection results
According to the STI specialist, in fact, the control authorities did not seek to sanction, but to warn, to help correct errors, and provided information on the new vehicle owner registration procedure.
During this period, the STI together with other institutions inspected 1.5 thousand. they detected 534 violations on the roads and during inspections when the vehicle did not have a mandatory SDK.
In such cases, the owners were verbally warned and also reminded of the obligation to receive an SDK before the car entered the territory of the Republic of Lithuania. The inspection data has been recorded and will then be used for control activities after the tolerance period.
STI specialists visited car dealership sites and markets, in total in almost 4 months. 5.4 thousand were inspected at various points of sale during the period. means of transport. During these visits, 2 thousand. cases where vendors didn’t make it public / didn’t have an SDK. If the SDK was not published, STI contacted the car dealer and provided information on the procedure for publishing the SDK.
He also reviewed ads for cars for sale.
The announcements in the electronic space were also actively reviewed. Ads on vehicle sales portals and social media are identified weekly, and their authors are monitored for compliance with the SDK. After publishing the ad and not specifying the SDK in them, 6.7 thousand. The population received automatic reminders from the STI via telephone about the obligation to indicate the SDK of the vehicle sold.
Malware indicates invalid SDK
Although the number of cases of selling a car without the SDK on advertising portals is gradually decreasing, it is still high. There is a tendency for ads to specify the wrong SDK.
Regitra photo / SDK code, Regitra
For example, on August 31st. after scanning 1.5 mil. ads on Internet portals found that 11 percent. Invalid / invalid SDK specified by ads.
What will the STI do in September?
What concrete measures will the CTI take as of September 1?
It first plans to contact taxpayers who have been warned during the tolerance period for violations of the SDK regime. It will also continue inspections on roads, advertising portals and markets, and other points of sale.
Fight against “buffers” and fictitious prices
Kauferiai they are essentially illegal contracts used by resellers to evade liability and evade taxes when reselling automobiles. Kauferyje a false price is often given, and the seller’s column features a German, Italian, or Turkish last name that the actual buyer has not seen in plain sight. In this way, the reseller is exempt from liability for the defective product sold.
How will the SDK also help to avoid fictitious prices in contracts, as this point is very important?
According to Rolandas Puncevičius, Senior Advisor to STI’s Control Department, one of SDK’s goals is to introduce a transparent competitive environment for the auto trade business and to protect the buyer from dishonest sellers.
There are cases where the buyer who concludes a transaction with the seller agrees to specify a lower price of the car in the contract of sale than is actually paid, and as a result suffers himself. This buyer, having subsequently sold the same car to another person at a price higher than that included in the contract at the time of the initial purchase, has to pay 15%. GPM of alleged benefits. Meanwhile, the seller evades paying taxes.
Also, if a car is found to be defective, the buyer loses the warranty to recover the full amount actually paid, since they have no evidence that they paid more than what is stated in the sales contract.
The SDK code declared for cars for sale (for example, in car sales web portals) allows to identify from the beginning the people who offer to sell cars, as well as the specific cars for sale (by make, body number) and the sale price to be quoted at a later stage can be compared with the available data (accounting, register, markets).
Will evaluate if the price is real
Likewise, in the near future, the STI plans to implement a system that will make it possible to assess the reality of the sale price of the cars specified in the contracts. And people who have entered into a car sales contract and put a potentially fictitious price on it will have to justify it.
If the price specified in the contract does not correspond to the market value of the car, the STI may request the seller to submit additional documents demonstrating the significantly lower price indicated. Unjustified contributions can lead to stricter tax procedures.
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