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  • Fake invoices cheat Thailand customs out of 20 billion baht

    http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/loca...e-out-of-b20bn

    At least 7,000 invoices submitted to the Customs Department by independent importers of luxury cars from the UK have proven to be fake, the Office of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission said.

    The fake invoices had allowed the importers to avoid paying more than 20 billion baht in import taxes, said Dusadee Arayawuthi, secretary-general of the PACC.

    In response to the PACC's request for help to verify the car import invoices with the car dealers in the UK, the British embassy in Bangkok recently confirmed that no British luxury car companies had exported cars to the independent car importers in question, Pol Col Dusadee said.

    Therefore, he said, all of the invoices submitted to the department had been falsified.

    The invoice value of the car is used to calculate import taxes.

    The embassy told the PACC that the value of each car declared with the British authorities was 55,000 (2.1 million baht), he said.

    But the total price of the cars declared with Thai customs authorities in US dollars was US$25,260 (800,667 baht), Pol Col Dusadee said.

    Tax refund applications were also submitted in the UK to seek refunds for the 20% tax paid there on the 7,000 vehicles, he said.

    The British embassy also asked the PACC to further investigate the gang behind the imported car tax avoidance scam, especially a Briton named Shariff Salim, he said. This suspect was believed to have played a key role in approaching car importers in Thailand, said Pol Col Dusadee, adding that the man usually travelled to Thailand to offer to sell the cars to importers.

    Previously, the PACC implicated 108 Customs Department officers in the scam, saying they were probably at fault for failing to verify the authenticity of the car import invoices.

    Yutthana Yimkaroon, deputy director-general of the department, said all 108 officers had been transferred and a panel set up to probe their alleged wrongdoing.
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