A number of tax audits throughout the Greek territory and in all branches of activity are carried out by the audit mechanism of the AADE, with the aim of defending the public interest and securing public revenues, with the aim carrying out at least 40,000 on-the-spot checksit is pointed out in a statement of the independent authority.

According to the same announcement, “Through the creation of a pool of experienced inspectors, AADE has strengthened the existing inspection potential of the islands, focusing inspections both on popular tourist destinations and on sectors of activity that present high rates of delinquency.

Furthermore, care was taken so that the echelons of control alternated, moving both in mainland and insular Greece. In this way, the controls are mainly carried out by controllers from different territorial jurisdictions.

Controllers have tablets availablewith the ELEGHOSlive system installed, through which they have direct access to the complete details of the auditees, facilitating their audit work.

To support the control levels, a special operational team of AADE, making use of the Operations Room and having special software, scans data throughout the day and selects the areas of intensification of controls.

The results of the risk analysis are also enriched with the data resulting from the comparison of the data of the e-send system with those of the POS. More specifically, the receipts, which are transmitted through the e-send system, and the income from payments using electronic means are compared.”

Finally, it is noted that audit levels derive information for verification checks from two important tools that have been implemented to reduce tax evasion. This is the Citizen Complaints platform, where complaints or information are submitted, and the Appodixi application.

It is noteworthy that, according to the announcement, more than 48,000 on-site tax audits have been carried out to date. These checks revealed a hidden value of more than 20 million euros, and fines of more than 1.34 million euros were imposed.

In addition, in 628 cases the prescribed sanctions were imposed, and more specifically, the operation of 490 businesses was suspended, while in the remaining 138 cases a monetary penalty was imposed.