Phantom companies in 2015 laundered over RSD 13, 5 billion

During 2015, Tax Directorate discovered more than 230 phantom forms and companies used for money laundering and defined that more than RSD 13,5 billion was laundered, Novosti reports.

According to data from financial reports 2014, there are 27.617 firms with zero employees. Experts however say it does not mean they all deal with tax evasion.

- Perhaps not all companies are phantom but they generated the fifth of economy loss in 2014- Pero Skobic, secretary of the Association of accountants of Serbia.

Number of companies with zero headcount have been on the increase and in 2014 2% more than in 2013 operated when there were 27.055.

As Novosti reports, in 2014 these companies had a loss of RSD 28 billion while a year before “minus” was even higher and totaled EUR 35 billion.