By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

With a significant delay, it is expected according to information in the next few days, that the government will submit the amendment to the Parliament that will provide for the reward for those who report fake receipts (those who have already done so will also be covered) through the application of the AADE Appodixi.

According to the regulation, if after the complaint it is proven that the company has interfered in any way in the process of issuing receipts with the result that they are fake, then a reward will be provided. The reward that will be multiples of the amount of the receipt with a minimum limit of €200-300 and a ceiling of €2,000.

The figures so far show that since the launch of the application on September 20, approximately 200,000 people have downloaded it. The majority of the complaints that have been made, the number of which decreased as days passed and the amendment did not come, concern receipts that had been issued by a declared cash register, but had not been hacked into the AADE electronic system.

In cases of non-transmission of the receipts, the only small fines are not:

-In the case of transactions subject to VAT, the fine is equal to a fine of 50% of the VAT. which is written on each undelivered item. This fine cannot be lower, cumulatively per tax audit, than €, if the entity is obliged to maintain a simple accounting system and €500, if the entity is obliged to maintain a double accounting system.

-In the case of transactions that are not subject to VAT, a fine of €500 per tax audit, if the taxpayer is required to maintain a simple accounting system and €1000, per tax audit, if the taxpayer is required to maintain a double accounting system.

The fine is doubled if the violation is repeated within five years of the confirmation of the original fine.

The way the application works is as follows:

The user opens the application and scans the QR code of the receipt with the camera of his mobile phone.

After the scan, the following indications are produced:

1. The receipt has been forwarded to AADE. In this case, the user must compare whether the details of the receipt (cash register number, company VAT number, receipt number, date and time of transaction issue, VAT transaction value) displayed in the application are the same as those written on the paper of the receipt. If it is not, then there has been an operation.

2. The receipt is declared, but the receipt has not yet been forwarded to AADE. In this case, the date and time beyond which the receipt should have been sent to AADE is mentioned. If the receipt has been issued before this point, the report for non-transmission of the receipt is indicated.

3. The QR code can’t even be read which means the checkout is not active or not declared.

If the user chooses to proceed with the complaint, he must then take a photo of the receipt, enter the reason from the menu of complaints presented to him and add, if desired, any comments and choose whether the complaint will be made anonymously or by name.