BULGARIA’S REVENUE AGENCY CHECKS BULGARIANS NAMED IN “PANAMA PAPERS”

Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency has asked the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to share the leaked information they obtained about Bulgarians and Bulgarian companies with offshore accounts and transactions, Bulgaria’s Minister of Finance, Vladislav Goranov said on 12th of April.

He said that additional tightening of the measures was undertaken regarding companies with offshore accounts which wanted to do business in Bulgaria. Goranov explained that so far the NRA had only looked into the Bulgarians named in the media in relation to the “Panama papers” and added that the state had ways to act to collect the share of taxes that were not paid.