Paper Companies’ Effect on the Value Added Tax Audit Risk (VAT)

One of the most important problems and challenges of the VAT system is formation of paper companies which lacks credit and incurring great financial losses for the country’s tax system. The paper companies have no existence and no economic activities and make disorder in economy of the country and they prevent economic transparency. The main objective of the present study is to identify the factors shaping the formation of paper companies and its relation to the risk of value added tax auditing: this research is descriptive survey and its type is correlation, and the structural equation model is used for analysis.  In this way, data collection inventories are used for paper companies, un- real selling and auditing risk. The statistical community of this study is the managers and experts, and companies called for the first stage of registration of the VAT registration system in Tehran. The findings indicate that the effect of paper companies on VAT auditing risk is significant and the graph in the standard mode also shows that VAT auditing risk is 82 percent and we can trace paper companies at 97% of the forefront of dubious transactions. Therefore managers can reduce the risk of VAT auditing by designing appropriate conditions and improve paper companies’ identification.