Extensive tax evasion in eleven service industries its auditors found Independent Public Revenue Authority.

It’s about businesses, in which the controls were targeted, with specialized handling and their results are processed by special software, due to elements of the controls, such as the place and duration of service provision.

Thus, significant concealment of taxable material was detected in:

* Courier services

* Medical services

* Photography services

* Telecommunications

* Parking services

* Building cleaning services

* Services of ceremony contractors

* Pawn shops

* Tutorials

* Gyms

* Cafe Bar

How they hid income

The tax evasion list includes freelancers and businesses that provided services

• They did NOT issue tax information

• Did NOT submit tax returns or submitted inaccurate tax returns

• They had NOT declared their business activity to the Tax Office

How they got caught in the lens

Auditors detected tax evasion using:

* Citizen complaints

* Internet surveys,

* Bank account details

* Processing seized items

Indicative cases that were completed in the year 2022 are the following:

• An association based in Thessaloniki was found to be carrying out a profit-making activity, from 2016-2020, with gross revenues of more than 2,400,000 euros.

• Sole proprietorship in Larissa, with the business of providing photography services, collected, from 2016 to 2020, 880,000 Euros, without issuing 1,400 receipts

• A general partnership in Larissa with the business of providing photography services, made sales in the years 2016 to 2020 without issuing tax information, with a total value of more than 540,000 euros.

• A limited liability company based in Thessaloniki and subject to cafe-bar activity, submitted inaccurate VAT returns. and income tax, hiding taxable material of more than 470,000 euros.

• A limited liability company based in Athens and whose business is the provision of tutoring services, during the years 2017-2019, did not issue 1,011 tax data. The net value of the items in question amounted to over 215,000 euros.

• Sole proprietorship based in Patras and engaged in the provision of credit services for pawning objects, from 2012-2019, did not issue 15,183 tax statements, over 650,000 euros, while, from 2016-2019, it issued 39 fictitious tax statements.

• A limited liability company based in Crete and engaged in road freight transport services, during the years 2016-2020, submitted inaccurate VAT returns. and income tax by concealing taxable material of more than 3.6 million euros.

• A funeral home in the Dodecanese, from 2016-2020, did not submit or submitted inaccurate VAT returns. and income tax, concealing taxable material totaling more than 450,000 euros.

• A general partnership based in Corfu and engaged in the provision of medical services was found to be concealing income of more than 430,000 euros, during the years 2015 to 2019, which came from foreign insurance companies as a fee for providing medical services to foreign insured persons.

• A sole proprietorship based in Pieria and engaged in the cleaning of buildings and carpets, in 2020 did not issue 2,984 tax returns with a total value of more than 210,000 euros.

• An outdoor parking area in Spata, during the years 2016-2020, did not issue 30,540 tax records, concealing taxable material totaling more than 460,000 euros.

• An anonymous company based in the Northern Sector of Athens and whose activity is telecommunications submitted inaccurate VAT returns. concealing taxable material totaling more than 3,700,000 euros.

• An anonymous company based in Athens and whose main activity is courier services, did not issue 33 tax documents, concealing taxable material of a total amount of more than 1,500,000 euros.

• A doctor in Komotini, during the year 2016, did not issue 667 tax documents worth more than 28,000 euros.

• A general partnership based in Thessaloniki and whose activity is instrumental or non-gymnastic gym services, in the year 2017, did not issue 2,264 tax data. The total value of the items in question exceeded 75,000 euros.

Investigations are ongoing as there are a number of targeted cases ongoing.