Value Added Tax Fraud

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Routledge, 2018 M12 7 - 334 pages

Serving as an introduction to one of the "hottest" topics in financial crime, the Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud, this new and original book aims to analyze and decrypt the fraud and explore multi-disciplinary avenues, thereby exposing nuances and shades that remain concealed by traditional taxation oriented researches. Quantifying the impact of the fraud on the real economy underlines the structural damages propagated by this crime in the European Union. The ‘fruadsters’ benefit when policy changes are inflicted in an economic space without a fully fledged legal framework. Geopolitical events like the creation of the Eurasian Union and 'Brexit' are analyzed from the perspective of the VAT fraud, thereby underlining the foreseeable risks of such historical turnarounds. In addition, this book also provides a unique collection of case studies that depict the main characteristics of VAT fraud.

Introduction to VAT Fraud will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regards to banking and finance law, international law, criminal law, taxation, accounting, and financial crime. It will be of value to researchers, academics, professionals, and students in the fields of law, financial crime, technology, accounting and taxation.

 

Contents

1 Introduction to the mechanisms of VAT fraud
1
2 Markets and VAT fraud
14
3 Impact of the VAT fraud on the EUs economy
31
4 Brexit effect on the VAT fraud
77
a modern economic weapon
85
6 How the VAT fraud proceeds are laundered
94
7 Perspectives upon the VAT fraud in the Eurasian Economic Union
103
VAT fraud and terrorism financing
113
10 Who is who in the VAT milieu?
178
11 How the VAT fraud reshaped the criminal underworld
247
12 Investigating the VAT fraud
258
13 Avenues of countering VAT fraud
265
Appendix
279
Bibliography
301
Index
307
Copyright

a real leverage for the VAT fraudsters
129

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About the author (2018)

Marius-Cristian Frunza is a Director with Schwarzthal Kapital, United Kingdom and an Associate Researcher with the Laboratory of Excellence for Financial Regulation (LABEX ReFI) in Paris, France.

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