In a press release, the Swedish Tax Agency has now sounded the alarm about a lack of bookkeeping and purchases that are not registered in the cash register. The authority has carried out inspection visits to smaller convenience and grocery stores, and has now launched the results.
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The stores selected for the checks were done so based on the authority’s own risk assessment.
A total of 112 smaller shops around the country were visited and it turns out after the visits that nearly four out of ten were subject to control fees afterwards. The sum totaled SEK 550,000.
“The Tax Agency has made inspection visits to 112 smaller food companies. Close to four out of ten of the companies visited were charged control fees totaling SEK 550,000, in most cases because the Tax Agency’s control purchase was not registered in the store’s register,” they write on their website.
In addition to the control fees issued, they have also carried out tax audits of 49 companies that operate grocery stores. The result of this meant additional taxes and fees that had to be paid, amounting to SEK 32.8 million. This mainly applies to unreported income and unreported wages. In addition, major deficiencies in the companies’ accounting have been discovered.
– There has been a lack of documentation for both income and expenses in the accounts, transactions on bank accounts have not been recorded and in several cases the records have been prepared with a large delay, says Roger Leander at the Swedish Tax Agency, coordinator of the control i the press release.
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Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TTSkatteverket: Customers have paid incorrectly
The background to the unreported income is considered to be the occasions when the stores’ cash registers did not contain all income. It has also been common for payments via Swish to the company representatives’ private accounts not to be reported to the company.
This means that the customers who paid with Swish have paid incorrectly in that the income was not reported as the company’s income in any case.
A further common error is that the reported gross profits were lower than they should have been partly based on the industry average and the companies’ own purchase and sale prices.
– Many of the companies visited have had control fees imposed and there were only a few investigations that did not result in changed taxation. We can state that parts of the industry are exposed to unhealthy competition. This control was well justified.
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