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After the president of the Budget and Finance Commission of Seimas Mykolas Majauskas warned that companies that had postponed millions of taxes are not published, the State Tax Inspection (STI) began to publish a list of such companies on Monday.
Companies that set aside more than 100,000. euros, you can find it on the STI website. The list will be updated every Monday.
In Lithuania, 22.3 thousand people took advantage of the tax deferral option to help companies affected by the coronavirus. companies, which allocated a total of 740.7 million taxes in euros. However, up to a third of this amount is owed by a hundred major taxpayers, mostly merchants.
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Merchants postponed most taxes
Among the companies with the most deferred taxes are the country’s large merchants. In first place in terms of deferred taxes is the wholesale and retail trade of the distributors of alcoholic beverages and soft drinks Bennet, which has deferred almost 20 million. euros.
The first three also include automobile importer Autobrava (€ 16.8 million deferred tax) and agricultural machinery trading company Lytagra (€ 11.2 million deferred tax).
Almost 10 million. The property management, which manages various commercial properties, also postponed taxes of more than 6 million euros. EUR – Ardovitė, which sells tractors, Imlitex and Jumps, which sells chemical and agricultural products.
Photo by Aurelija Jašinskienė / 15min.lt / “Western Wood Group”
Also at the top of the list are companies as large as Vakarų medium group, which has committed 5.2 million. Apranga (5 million euros), Depo DIY LT (2.75 million euros) or Hermitage (1.9 million euros).
M.Majauskas: three large companies returned their supplies
President of the Seimas BFK M.Majauskas 15 minutes stated that on December 1. In the summary submitted to the commission, the total amount of arrears for the top 20 CTI debtors was LTL 158 million. euros.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Mykolas Majauskas
When STI was asked to make this list public, the total amount decreased by approximately 39 million LTL. up to 119 million euros. euros.
Up to three companies out of twenty have fully reported to the State Tax Inspection, – says M. Majauskas.
“Up to three companies out of twenty have submitted complete reports to the State Tax Inspection. This is not evidence that companies have abused tax deferral. After all, everything passes, maybe you forgot, maybe you just didn’t pay on time. Or maybe the situation has suddenly improved and taxes have been paid, ”said M. Majauskas.
“It is certainly not a shame to use the support provided by the state, especially in such difficult times. State aid measures are there to be used. It is simply important to ensure maximum transparency: information on state aid provided at the expense of the taxpayers must be publicly available, “he added.
M. Majauskas stressed that advertising is an important preventive measure for state aid to be used by those who need it most, and pointed out that advertising is given to all other companies that have received state aid.
The list includes more than a thousand companies
In the list published by the STI, December 14. According to 2020 data, there are 1,085 companies about which only non-confidential information is published: the name of the company, its code, the total amount of tax arrears (and when a tax loan contract has been concluded) and the amounts of taxes paid by the company in 2020 and 2019.
“We observe that companies affected by COVID-19, although they have tax arrears, are considered indebted to the budget and the information published has no impact on their operations or participation in public purchases,” said the director of the Legal Department in a press release. . Rasa Virvilienė.
Companies affected by the pandemic, whose arrears exceed 100,000, have already paid 582.2 million to this year’s budget. and its total tax arrears amount to 528.9 million euros. euros. The Top500 of the companies that pay the most for the budget is published and constantly updated – here.
According to the STI, the list of victims of COVID-19 includes more than 62 thousand. companies, of which approximately one in three (about 22 thousand) use the fiscal aid measures provided by the STI. In total, the companies that have suffered the negative consequences of COVID-19 have around 735.1 million. back taxes.
The total tax arrears of half of the taxpayers subject to tax assistance measures do not reach 1,000 LTL. euros. Only 1 percent. companies have arrears of more than 0.5 million. 54% EUR. the total back taxes of all. From March 16. 2,000 have already been made. tax loan agreements with companies and individuals, 131.2 million. in the amount of EUR.
The STI reminds that the tax aid measures – exemption from default interest and suspension of tax recovery actions – are valid for taxes accrued before December 31 of this year and will be valid for two months thereafter. Until February 28 of next year. Companies have the right to enter into an interest-free tax loan contract through a simplified procedure and under certain conditions.
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