The Treasury has taken a decisive step in its battle against ghost companies and the frauds associated with their existence in the LGBT tourism segment in Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés for the Progay celebration this November in the south of the island. No wonder: the company awarded EU Canary Tourism funding for the celebration of the event, Progay, has assured that 50.000 tourist personnel transiting that week, which could be 10.000 each day to which we must add the Tourists who use the perimeter in six days, from November 6 to 12, would generate between 70 and 80 million euros. That is to say: for tax purposes the figures stated do not match those stated to be generated and that is what motivates the tax offensive. All this, compared with the turnover of companies in the sector, would be generating a crater for the public treasury and that is not to mention the IGIC.
The Treasury has taken a decisive step in its battle against shell companies and the fraud associated with their existence. In the near future, the Tax Agency's anti-fraud teams will investigate particularly anomalous behavior by operators in the sector. With such a volume of business it would not make sense to go to the Administration to ask for a few European funds for local public promotion and sponsorship, no matter how much general interest there is in a winter market that has a full occupancy. "If it were summer they have a pass, in high season it is difficult to understand and if the figures are real they should ask for at least five million euros and not so meager," a tax source told Maspalomas24H.
The Treasury has long identified zombie businesses in Playa del Inglés and a statistical bubble that has no logic. But since the businessmen in the sector themselves say that they manage these figures of up to 70 million euros of business for the winter LGTB market, the AEAT has reinforced its teams in the south of the island. Businessmen who are in the local market appreciate the Treasury's interest in intervening given that they spend the entire year operating and, in most cases, they are foreigners who come, bill and leave without a trace.
A businessman from the Yumbo shopping center told Maspalomas24H this Thursday that "we are legally operating here and we welcome everyone" but "don't forget that what you should really pursue are businesses that potentially hide the true ownership of the goods and rights." , in Spain or in other jurisdictions and that affect the transparency of the identification and communication system of the 'effective beneficiary', which the organization has turned into one of the workhorses of its fiscal crusade."
