By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

The tug-of-war over whether or not to extend the submission deadline tax returns intensifies. The Ministry of Finance counters the increasing pressure every day tax technicians and accountants a new extension until September 30. In fact, their position is that every year this should be the deadline and that the sufficient time for submitting tax returns is 5 months.

The Ministry of Finance rules out any extension as the figures show that despite any problems this year around 50,000 more returns have been submitted compared to the corresponding period last year and that with a daily rate of 120,000 submissions – which has already been caught – there should be no problem with the dates. In addition, the problems that are identified are quickly resolved through the taskforce that has been set up, a fact that is also recognized by the tax experts.

However, the federation points out that in the remaining 17 days, at least 2.2 million must be submitted. natural persons. That is about 122,000/day.

To these must be added the tax returns of freelancers and the self-employed whose rate of submission is much slower as more than 60% are missing compared to 33% of natural persons.

And to all of this must be added the amendments that will need to be made to the 1.3 million pre-filled tax returns that were submitted – approximately 875,000 by the taxpayers themselves and 425,000 by the AADE – as, according to the tax experts, the number of problems that arise regarding incomplete or inaccurate information. In the updated list of problems it is characteristically mentioned that there are still problems with:

-Incorrect interest rates on deposits and loans

-The non-appearance of cars that were in circulation in 2023

-The posting of program benefits by DYPA which is pending

– The identification of settlements with less than 500 inhabitants in cases where another name exists in the AADE register and another is reported by ELSTAT
Farmers who are presumptively taxed due to problems in the KAD

– Declarations of pretensions with building signs. All settlements come out inflated since the hired services are added to the imputed income instead of being subtracted

-Taxpayers without IBAN for whom the available appointments with the banks start after August 1st

Especially with regard to the amending declarations, there are some categories of taxpayers who have not been informed as the tax experts argue that they must amend:

-Pensioners with retroactive benefits from the Equity Fund

-Policemen who received electoral compensation

-Pensioners and long-term unemployed who received emergency financial aid in 2023

In addition, errors/omissions are noted with:

-Incorrect posting of main residence to grant Power Pass with no possibility of correction

-Protected children who had income in 2023 cannot submit a declaration because they are blocked by the parent’s already submitted declaration which cannot be amended

-Various codes (cars, rents, disabilities, real estate purchases

Professionals report extra workload due to the implementation of the digital job card from July 1 in retail and industry which is experiencing problems.