“Public bodies should provide the necessary certificates for completing the tax returns on time, and if they do not provide them, fines will be imposed on the heads of services and the relevant general managers,” warned Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis via SKAI 100.3. the finance minister noted that this is something that is being done for the first time in Greece.

“Government will not just ask citizens to do what they are supposed to do under the law, but the state itself will then sanction government officials if they don’t do their job.” clarified Mr. Hatzidakis.

According to the report of Chrysostomos Tsoufis for skai.gr, the pre-filled tax returns were a big bet for the government, but also for the AADE who undertook to implement it. However, the other involved agencies did not deal with it with the same zeal.

Last May, pointed out the multitude of tax errors in the pre-filled declarations, with the accountants even holding a “teftier” with the problems that were being solved in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance and the AADE along the way. Problems arising from the inability or indifference of public bodies to send the data to AADE correctly and on time so that its competent services can then upload them to E1.

In order to avoid the repetition of such phenomena, the Ministry of Finance decided to “put gas” on the leaders of public organizations.