Detained property developer Delfin Lee is facing another legal problem after the Bureau of Internal Revenue on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to prosecute him for alleged non-payment of P20 million in taxes for the years 2009 and 2010. Lee is also charged with syndicated estafa for using his Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corp. in an alleged fraudulent means to obtain state housing loans through “ghost borrowers.”
This time, the BIR accused G.A. Concrete Mix Inc. and its corporate officers Delfin Lee and president-treasurer Dexter Lee (Delfin’s son) of violating the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 for “willfully attempting to evade or defeat the payment of tax” and “deliberately failing to supply correct and accurate information in their corporate income tax returns for taxable years 2009 and 2010.
GACMI is one of GA’s suppliers engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, buying, selling and dealing at wholesale or retail on goods such as ready mix products, equipment, materials and other supplies used in the manufacture if such finished products.
BIR records showed that GA made income payments to GACMI amounting to P34.06 million in 2009 and P15.31 million in 2010.
However, the BIR noted that GACMI only declared sales of P13.40 million in 2009 and P10.63 million the following year, thereby “underdeclaring its taxable sales by 154 percent or P20.66 million in 2009 and P4.68 million or 44 percent in 2010.”
Because of this, the BIR said the respondents’ tax liability stood at P20.50 million, inclusive of surcharges and interests.
Apart from the tax case, Lee has also been charged with syndicated estafa or allegedly using “ghost borrowers” so that his company can take out P6.6 billion in loans from Pag-IBIG to finance its housing project in Pampanga.
He is presently detained at the Pampanga provincial jail while the cases against him are being heard by the San Fernando, Pampanga RTC.
Meanwhile, the BIR also filed similar charges against businesswoman Lilibeth Quiroz Nuque and Dr. Mildred Manalac-Mariano, a doctor of medicine and one of the stockholders and incorporators of the Pampanga Medical Specialist Hospital Inc. She also operates several clinics in Pampanga.
In its complaint against Nuque, the BIR said she has tax liabilities of P228.02 million for taxable years 2010 to 2012.
According to BIR, Nuque owns and operates the LQN gasoline station in Dinalupihan, Bataan.
The BIR said the respondent underdeclared her sales by 117.96 percent or P85.27 million in 2010, 129.19 percent or P134.25 million in 2011 and 101.58 percent or P93.41 million in 2012.
In the case of Mariano, the BIR said she underdeclared her taxable incomes from 2002 to 2012 with the highest underdeclaration in 2012 of 9, 570.31 percent.
The BIR said Mariano’s tax liabilities stood at P25.81 million for the entire taxable period, or from 2002 to 2012.