By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

The gates of the platform for the revival of the 72 and 120 installments for debts to the tax office, insurance funds and municipalities and the accounting data are opening today AADE for 2022 show that the decision of the Ministry of Finance was absolutely necessary.

According to the data, the year ended with a more than doubling of enforcement measures. A fact that is attributed on the one hand to the fact that throughout 2022 the economy worked in contrast to 2021 when we had the quarantines, but on the other hand to the difficulties citizens face in being consistent with their obligations. A total of 518,622 enforcement measures were taken against 253,622 in 2021.

Particularly:

-Seizures in the hands of third parties increased by 110%

-Auctions 93.7%

-Seizure orders 118%

-Seizure files 175%

On the last day of 2022, 3.99 million TINs had debts to the tax office. 1.4 million have already been subject to compulsory collection measures while 2 million are at immediate risk.

In total, in 2022 new debts amounting to €7.9 billion were added to AADE’s books, approximately €6.2 billion of which are tax (the rest are non-tax, uncollectible debts and debts of insolvent debtors). Somehow, the total debt to the tax authorities now amounts to €84.3 billion, if the debts that are considered uncollectible are added, the amount rises to €113.7 billion. Roughly 2/3 are debts of natural persons and 1/3 of businesses.

A look at the borrowers’ qualitative data shows that the vast majority of new debts are small amounts:

-77% are debts up to €500

-21% are debts between €501 and €10,000

The x-ray of debts to the tax authorities shows:

-2.1 million taxpayers owe up to €500 and are not at risk of forced collection measures

-1.1 million they owe €501-€3,000

-414,000 owe €3001-€10,000

-247,450 owe €10,001-€50,000

-69,000 owe €50,001-300,000

-14,182 owe €300,001 – €1.5 million

-5,400 owe €1,500,001-€10,000,000

-1,325 owe more than €10,000,001 each.

Eight out of ten, that is, have debts of up to €3,000 and the 1325 in the last category owe 60% of the total debt to the tax authorities.

Nine out of ten euros of debts concern the period before 30/11/2019 and only one out of ten euros is a recent debt of the last 3 years.