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Accenture Bangladesh, a Grameenphone associate company offering management consultancy, technology and outsourcing services, which has been charged with tax evasion, is allegedly delaying payments of its value added tax (VAT) dues.

Accenture, located in the Grameenphone headquarters in Basundhara Residential Area of the capital, was known as GPIT (Grameenphone IT) before 2013. GP sold its 51 percent stake in GPIT to Accenture in 2013, according to a Grameenphone annual report.

The Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate at Uttara has not received VAT dues totalling Tk 33.25 crore from the company, against a demand note issued by the commissionerate on March 1. A commissionerate official confirmed this to The Independent on Sunday. According to the commissionerate, the company had three weeks to pay the VAT.

“We are discussing the matter as the company is a part of Bangladesh’s biggest telecoms company Grameenphone. Nevertheless, it will have to pay the VAT dues,” added a NBR (National Board of Revenue) commissioner.

After purchasing 51 per cent of the stake in July 2013, US-based Accenture changed GPIT’s name to Accenture, and is now operating in Bangladesh.
Under the terms of the deal, each of GPIT’s 750,000 shares has been priced at USD 26.63; Accenture would purchase a total of 382,000 shares to make it a 51 per cent stakeholder.

When asked about VAT evasion, Shabnam Khan of the marketing and communications department of Accenture, stated in an e-mail that Accenture pays taxes in accordance with the tax legislation in each country in which it operates. “As this matter is before the tax authorities, we cannot discuss it any further,” she added.
According to the demand note issued on March 1, although GPIT is registered as an ‘IT consulting and supervisory firm,’ and it sells ‘IT-based services’.
The VAT imposed on IT-based services was 15 per cent from June 2010 to June 2011, and it was 4.5 per cent from July 2012 to July 2014.
GPIT, which is now Accenture, sold services worth Tk 298.32 crore between June 2010 and June 2011, and was supposed to pay Tk 44.74 crore in VAT at the rate of 15 percent. But the company paid only Tk 20.96 crore in VAT, which is Tk 23.78 crore less than the actual amount.
When contacted over phone, Grameenphone officials refused to make any comment on the issue of evading VAT by GPIT during the June 2010 to June 2011 period.

In the 2012–13 FY, 4.5 per cent VAT was imposed for the kind of services the company provides. Accenture sold services worth Tk 386.81 crore from July 2012 to July 2014, and was supposed to pay Tk 17.38 crore in VAT. But the company paid only Tk 13.66 crore, which was Tk 3.71 crore less than the actual amount.
The company illegally availed a waiver of Tk 4.14 crore VAT, although it provided services at a lower base price. The company did this only to evade taxes, according to the VAT authorities.

Also, between 2010 and 2013, the company did not pay any VAT on rent and establishment costs, and evaded Tk 1.60 crore, according to the authorities. VAT authorities said the company evaded a total of Tk 33.25 crore in VAT between June 2010 and July 2014.

Established in 2010 by Grameenphone, the company provides end-to-end solutions to banks, financial institutions, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), pharmaceutical and telecom companies.

Accenture has operations in 56 countries, and in the fiscal year that ended in 2014, it generated net revenues of USD 30 billion.

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