He “expires” tomorrow, Monday, September 2 the deadline for professionals and the self-employed to join the IRIS payment system. The mobile phone of the debtors must be connected to a business account, the one that in banking terminology is called a “checking account” otherwise the fines will be steep.

Specifically, for those debtors who do not register with IRIS by the end of the deadline, it is provided a fine of 1,500 euros.

OR AADE sends messages to debtors who have not yet connected.

As he notes in his statement Ministry of National Economy and Finance: “on Monday, September 2nd, the deadline for freelancers and self-employed persons to link their professional account to the direct payment system expires (in Greece, the IRIS system is currently operating). Through this system, they are allowed to accept direct payments from their customers and benefit from the significant advantages offered by the service such as significantly reduced or even no cost of commissions as well as speed in the processing of transactions”.

To date, there are 400,000 freelancers and self-employed people registered with the service, of which 240,000 have activated the instant payment system this year. In fact, in recent weeks, the rate of registration to the service is five times higher than in the previous period.

A total of 12 banks now provide the service: Alpha Bank, National Bank, Eurobank, Piraeus Bank, Cooperative Bank of Epirus, Viva.com, Optima Bank, Attica Bank, Pankritia Bank, Cooperative Bank of Thessaly, Cooperative Bank of Karditsa and Cooperative Bank of Chania.