Audit operation was conducted in the meat and domestic catering services industry

The corona year in which it is already known that tax evasion has intensified in the various industries, due to the small number of raids by tax investigators in the field. The tax authority decided to change this policy.
On Monday, a particularly wide-ranging audit operation was conducted in the meat and domestic catering services industry, during which a series of tax evasions worth millions of shekels were revealed. As part of the operation, more than 180 businesses across the country were inspected.
During an audit in the northern region, the visitors came to a family business in the Galilee, where it turned out that while one brother was registered for VAT as a cattle ranger, the other brother, who runs a butcher shop at the site, works without registration at all. For conducting transactions without registration. The two brothers were summoned to VAT offices for further investigation and according to an initial estimate, they are suspected of evading about one million shekels.
In another audit in the northern region, visitors came to the butcher shop, where they found the business owner's brother at the checkout, while the business owner himself hid from investigators. When the visitors arrived at the scene, the brother asked them to leave the business and even demonstratively sharpened knives towards them. After presenting the search warrant, the business owner was identified and began cooperating with the tax investigators. During the cash register count, it emerged that transactions in the amount of thousands of shekels were not printed, and cash register videos and diaries detailing income from cash that were not recorded from 2017 until today were found. Following the audit, the dealer's books will be disqualified and the case has been transferred for further processing at VAT offices.
In Be'er Sheva, the investigators arrived at the slaughterhouse, where they found the hundreds of shekels worth of cash at the checkout. In addition, as part of a routine inventory inspection conducted during the audit, it was found that the business owner made purchases of calves, in the amount of over NIS 162,000.
In preparation for the operation, a list of dealers nationwide in the butchers industry was prepared and lists of the largest meat importers in the Israeli economy were transferred. Preliminary actions were also taken, which included observations, experience shopping and checking posts on social networks in order to cross-check them. In addition to the businesses inspected, enforcement activities were conducted against 1,277 taxpayers, of whom NIS 116,462,576 were collected and 106 vehicles were confiscated.