With a five-month delay, 536,000 will join cashiers mail POS. This will happen as ATM upgrade voucher they will be handed over to the enterprises by the end of March. According to tax administrationthe measure for operating enterprises will be implemented at the end of May – beginning of June, indicating that AADE is in constant contact with the Ministry of Finance so that the funding (subsidy) reaches the beneficiaries faster so that the proper and smooth implementation of the measure can begin.

Thus, another window of tax evasion closes from June, as it is now. card payments the receipt will be issued automatically.

At yesterday’s press conference, the president of the Association of Importers and Manufacturers of Cash Registers, Dimitris Katreides, and the vice president, Grigoris Yiannukos, assured that it was impossible to hack the tax cash registers and obtain data from the tax memory. changed. They pointed out, however, that the only opportunities for intervention are electronic tax mechanisms that rely on computerized receipt programs where retail receipts can be issued even with simple printers and look like legal receipts. In fact, they stated that the interventions that alter the receipt data in such a way that it is inaccurately represented in the AADE are carried out by computer programs that work independently of the mechanisms and bypass them by sending false information to the tax administration.

The delay is due to the fact that ATM upgrade vouchers will be issued to businesses by the end of March.

In addition, Mr. Katreides and Mr. Yiannoukos stated that the timetable foresees the start of this connection from January 1, 2023. However, as there was not enough time to technically complete the systems adaptation procedures by the end of 2022, AADE has formulated a new timetable.

a) During 2022, a decision will be made to change the operating specifications of other FIMs (EAFDSS) so that they also operate as “closed” mechanisms – like tax offices – and that there is no possibility of intervention to falsify receipt data issued to consumers and amounts transactions that should not be falsely declared (decreased) in AADE.

b) From 10/01/2023 to 03/31/2023, businesses that have cash registers and POS will be able to apply for vouchers provided to facilitate their funding to upgrade cash registers so that they can interact with the POS. .

c) However, by reference, they suggest that the connection will take place from April 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023 from the POS of all small and medium enterprises that receive vouchers.