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It is not the first time that the term ghost company has been a trend, since on many occasions news has been spread, such as the famous “Panama Papers”.
According to the Tax Administration Service (SAT), in 2020, it accounted for more than 12 thousand of these ghost companies.
Specialists define a shell company as “a company that is illegally used to carry out simulated business operations and that has no real assets or constitutes corporate fronts whose sole purpose is to defraud or evade the application of the law.”
After the controversy surrounding José Ramón López Beltrán, son of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), where experts, officials and citizens assure that it has a “ghost company”, it is very important to know the term of what this means.
It is not the first time that the term ghost company has been a trend, since on many occasions news has been spread, such as celebrities “Panama Papers”even various cases of corruption in Mexico and the world use these words.
According to the Tax Administration Service (SAT), in 2020, accounted for more than 12 thousand of these ghost companies.
What is a ghost company?
Specialists define a shell company as “a company that is illegally used to carry out simulated business operations and that has no real assets or constitutes corporate fronts whose sole purpose is to defraud or evade the application of the law.”
In this sense, they explain that they are not companies in general, since those responsible for ghost companies and illicit acts are the “individuals who hide behind the so-called corporate veil.”
The purpose of creating ghost companies is to be able to persuade taxpayers that when they buy the invoices, they will be able to “reduce taxes in exchange for the payment of the company, which generally have a percentage of the amount of the invoice issued”.
How to detect ghost companies?
Like all things in life, if we don’t know, we don’t have any reference, we don’t know its office and much less who integrates it, we can begin to speculate that it is a ghost company.
Legal experts assure that every legal company has a public image, and more so in this era where even an image virtual in social networks can let you know about a business or a brand.
In these cases, in Mexico the State is in charge of receiving information from notaries and other institutions to detect this type of company and sanction them.
In 2019, The Mexican Senate approved the Law against Ghost Companies and Tax Evasion, to combat ghost companies and the use of false invoices.
Within the framework of these laws, those who, through third parties, issue, dispose of, buy or acquire tax receipts that cover non-existent, false or simulated legal acts will be increased from five to eight years in prison.
Likewise, from that date on, the use of so-called shell companies is considered a crime that warrants preventive detention, and false invoices will be considered similar to smuggling.
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