Justice raided a meat packing plant in the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires for alleged tax evasion, following a complaint from the AFIP. During the procedure, information from computer devices was seized and the establishment's storage facilities were closed to protect the large amount of documentation that would prove the operation under investigation.
The search was ordered in the context of a criminal case filed before the Federal Court of First Instance of Quilmes, headed by Judge Luis Armella, delegated to the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Quilmes, whose head is Silvia Cavallo.
The research hypothesis is based on the existence of an organization that operates in the meat industry that would use engineering to prevent the traceability of the merchandise and the true recipients..
To do this, the meat packing plants invoice their sales to taxpayers who were not the actual recipients of the product. This maneuver generates the simulation of sales and payments, and as a consequence, a tax benefit in favor of certain people.
Officials from the AFIP and the Argentine Naval Prefecture participated in the operations.
It should be noted that, with the aim of reducing VAT evasion and achieving traceability in the value chains, the AFIP implemented the Electronic Meat Remittance Note as the only valid document for the transfer of meat and slaughter by-products of bovine, buffalo and porcine species.
They are required to be used by meat packing plants and slaughterhouses, as well as suppliers, butchers and meat consignees, among others.
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