With a new electronic “weapon” AADE raids islands and tourist areas this summer in order to locate and capture part of them tax avoidanceto increase government revenue.

We are talking about “ELEGHOSLive”, which is mainly transfers to the site of the audit all the necessary archival materials with the financial profile of the auditeeat the same time, it is possible to search and cross-reference to the necessary financial data.

The Ministry of Finance and AADE estimate that the tourism industry, in addition to being a powerful support for the economy and employment, can bring in significant tax revenues by disclosing undeclared income. In fact, they point out that part of last year’s increase in VAT revenue is also due to extensive controls carried out by special trains.

In fact, time is of the essence, given that the new government to be formed in the June 25 elections wants to have increased tax revenue in its quiver in order to achieve fiscal targets faster and with more confidence, and on the other hand, have fiscal space. for the implementation of social policy. In fact, the estimates are especially optimistic in a year when tourism is expected to collect historical records.

For an existing project more than 30,000 checks to be carried out on islands and tourist areas this summer using a new electronic “weapon” launched by AADE in the fight against tax evasion.

“CONTROLLive” which is enabled will allow controllers a complete picture of the auditee’s financial profile at the time of the control and actually on tablet screen what they bring with them.

The big advantage of this new feature is, among other things, automatic crossing during checkat the same time, a corresponding note with the results of the control will be issued on the spot.

Let’s take a closer look at what features ELEGHOSLive has and how auditors can access all the necessary financial data in real time through a tablet:

• Auditors will be able to automatically check the authenticity of checks issued by cash registers. In addition to tablets, they will also be equipped with portable handheld scanners (QRScanners).
• They will be able to check whether businesses have submitted invoice and receipt data to the myDATA platform.
• They will be able to cross-check data directly and very quickly with tax returns, VAT returns, etc.
• They will have access to the financial profile and the entire history of the professional or business. In short, they will be able to know immediately whether they have committed violations in the past, what kind and whether they are repeat offenders.
• They will issue and immediately notify the audited certificate of the results of the audit, on the basis of which sanctions and fines will be imposed in case of concealment of turnover and non-payment of VAT.

In case of violations of non-issuance of checks from cash desks or failure to send data to the myDATA platform, the business will be “locked down” from 48 hours to 10 daysdepending on the size of the violation.

As provided for by the relevant Penal Code of the Tax Office, the activities of a professional institution are suspended:

• Immediately within 48 hours, if it is determined by the same control that either the non-issuance or the inaccurate issuance of more than 10 prescribed sales documents or regardless of quantity, the net value of goods or services for which there were no sales documents issued or the hidden value of those issued, respectively, exceeds EUR 500, or the failure to submit to the AADE Electronic Tax Mechanism (FEM) Information System, more than 10 retail sales details that were issued through the Electronic Tax Mechanism (FEM), or, regardless of their number, the value of the undelivered goods or services exceeds EUR 500.
• Immediately within 96 hours, if during the same or the next tax year again at the same or another commercial institution of the debtor, by the same control, or failure to issue or inaccurate issue of at least 3 sales documents, or failure to transfer to the Information System ( ISS) AADE at least 3 units of retail sales, issued through the SIS, regardless of their cost.
• Immediately within 10 days, every time within 2 tax years in any professional institution of the debtor, the same check reveals either non-issuance or unreliable issuance of at least 3 documents on implementation, or non-transmission to the Information System (FIM) AADE at least 3 retail units issued through FIM, regardless of their value.

Source: RES