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Boston University School of Law

Tax fraud

2013

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Dice – Digital Invoice Customs Exchange, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Goran Todorov Aug 2013

Dice – Digital Invoice Customs Exchange, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Goran Todorov

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A digital invoice customs exchange (DICE) is a technology-intensive tax compliance regimen for VAT/GST that utilizes invoice encryption to safeguard transactional data exchanged between seller and buyer in both domestic and import/export contexts while simultaneously notifying concerned jurisdictions of the transaction details.

DICE facilitates real-time VAT/GST enforcement as well as real-time commercial contract verification. It is a commercial invoice validation system that prevents tax evasion, most notably missing trader fraud and the non-declared import of trade-able services. DICE mimics the most effective administrative enforcement effort ever undertaken by the US IRS – the requirement to disclose the social security numbers …