1st Edition

Value Added Tax Fraud

By Marius-Cristian Frunza Copyright 2019
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Table of Contents





Acknowledgments





Chapter One- Introduction to the mechanisms of VAT fraud





 



Chapter Two- Markets and VAT fraud





 



Chapter Three- Impact of the VAT fraud on EU's economy





 



Chapter Four - Brexit effect on the VAT fraud





 



Chapter Five - VAT: A modern economic weapon





 



Chapter Six - How the VAT fraud proceeds are laundered?





 



Chapter Seven - Perspectives upon the VAT fraud in the Eurasian Economic Union





 



Chapter Eight- The economy of terror : VAT fraud and terrorism financing





 



Chapter Nine- Technology: a real leverage for the VAT fraudsters





 



Chapter Ten- Who is who in the VAT milieu ?





 



Chapter Eleven- How the VAT fraud reshaped the criminal underworld?





 



Chapter Twelve - Investigating the VAT fraud





 



Chapter Thirteen - Avenues of countering VAT fraud





 



Appendix-





 







  • Interview: Chris Perryman, Europol










  • Interview: Bo Elkjaer a pioneer journalist in VAT investigation










  • Interview: Dr. Mike Cheetham, VAT fraud expert


Biography

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.