2013
The Vancouver Sun reported back in 2013 that the British Columbia Court of Appeal has tarnished a successful, high-profile Canada Revenue Agency investigation into restaurant tax cheats. Four years after a Richmond computer company was charged and a year after it was convicted of tax fraud, the province’s highest bench has ordered the company acquitted.
When a zapper is installed in conjunction with the firm’s Profitek point-of-sale record keeping system, a user can delete cash transactions from sales records and produce statements that under-report income.
The RCMP conducted an undercover operation in 2008 in which agents set up shop in a Vancouver restaurant and purchased the zapper software from InfoSpec.
The owners of four B.C. restaurants were charged with tax evasion and the CRA said more than $3 million in sales had been hidden and nearly $1 million in tax lost.
The owner of a North Vancouver sushi restaurant was handed 20 months house arrest and fined almost $143,000 after pleading guilty to tax evasion using the software.
A former InfoSpec salesman was sentenced to two years and six months in jail for fraud over $5,000 in relation to the sale of the software.
Hospitality sector in Belgium, with 25,000 Euros or more in revenue from the sale of food and drinks, starting January 1st must have a certified cash register/POS connected to the fiscal black box.
vernment of the Russian Federation submitted to the state Duma a bill providing for gradual transition of sales control and cash equipment (контрольно-кассовой техники – KKT), transmitting information about payments to the tax authorities in electronic form. The transition needs to happen within 2017.