Post by firoj1616 on Feb 15, 2024 6:12:40 GMT -5
The Stand Center shopping center, which is located on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, may be closed. The Federal Public Ministry, the State Public Ministry and the Federal Attorney General's Office joined forces and filed a Public Civil Action, this Thursday afternoon (12/4), asking for the center's closure. In the action, they also ask for the judicial dissolution of the companies Stand Center Comércio e Promoção de Feiras e Eventos Ltda. and Stand Center Participações e Empreendimentos Ltda., who signed the rental contract for the space, located on Avenida Paulista. The place houses 210 boxes, where pirated CDs, DVDs, computer programs and video games are sold; counterfeit perfumes, watches, clothing and sporting goods, as well as electronic products and hardware without receipts.
Since December when Operation Sagitário was carried out, the Stand Center and other illegal trade centers have been the target of actions by the Federal Revenue Service and inspection by the State Secretariat for Finance Affairs with the aim of combating smuggling and embezzlement. So far, the value of tax assessments has reached R$1 million. The MPs and the AGU understand Egypt Email List that, regardless of federal and state inspections, the collective interest must prevail “to voluntarily cancel activity centered on the practice of illegality”, which offends the “sound economic order” and disregards tax legislation. According to the authors of the action, the rental contract, even if private, is illegal, as it lacks a legal object for its purpose.
For the authors, the property loses its social function when it is rented for the exercise of mostly criminal activities. Despite the high annual rent of the shopping center, each box collects, according to data from the Federal Revenue and state tax authorities, negligible amounts in taxes monthly. According to the IRS, some boxes simply do not pay any tax. Non-payment of taxes, in the analysis of Revenue inspectors, is a lure for consumers, who are not concerned with the quality or origin of the product given the immediate economic advantage. Despite the imminent risk of inspections, the business is profitable for traders, so much so that only 10% of the goods seized in operations carried out between 2005 and 2006 were claimed by sellers. trade is wide open, say the MP and the AGU. Recordings made by state inspectors showed the sellers offering the products without a note.
Since December when Operation Sagitário was carried out, the Stand Center and other illegal trade centers have been the target of actions by the Federal Revenue Service and inspection by the State Secretariat for Finance Affairs with the aim of combating smuggling and embezzlement. So far, the value of tax assessments has reached R$1 million. The MPs and the AGU understand Egypt Email List that, regardless of federal and state inspections, the collective interest must prevail “to voluntarily cancel activity centered on the practice of illegality”, which offends the “sound economic order” and disregards tax legislation. According to the authors of the action, the rental contract, even if private, is illegal, as it lacks a legal object for its purpose.
For the authors, the property loses its social function when it is rented for the exercise of mostly criminal activities. Despite the high annual rent of the shopping center, each box collects, according to data from the Federal Revenue and state tax authorities, negligible amounts in taxes monthly. According to the IRS, some boxes simply do not pay any tax. Non-payment of taxes, in the analysis of Revenue inspectors, is a lure for consumers, who are not concerned with the quality or origin of the product given the immediate economic advantage. Despite the imminent risk of inspections, the business is profitable for traders, so much so that only 10% of the goods seized in operations carried out between 2005 and 2006 were claimed by sellers. trade is wide open, say the MP and the AGU. Recordings made by state inspectors showed the sellers offering the products without a note.