By Vangelis Dourakis

The summer has arrived … The taxpayers are coming: Nearly 43,000 checks have been planned by AADE for the summer months with the taxiou scales preparing suitcases for tourist destinations. Only instead of swimwear and sunscreen they will have in their luggage… laptop, tablets and drones. And of course the command is clear: where a violation is found, even a relatively small value of being “padlock” for example. “Padlock” that can reach one month in duration.

In this raid that the tax-auditors are attempting will also have the help of the citizens: the latter through the “Mycoast” application will be able to make complaints about the legality of the concession of the Aegeans, with the men of the audit services being able to obtain relevant information.

How the Audit mechanism detects those who do not “cut” evidence

In any case, checks will be carried out with tablets that are directly linked to AADE, and satellite images, as well as images of drones, especially in the case of seaside violations, will be used.

Apart from the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, the Ionian Islands and Crete, there are land -based destinations under the microscope such as the Peloponnese, Halkidiki and Euboea. Checks focus on catering businesses, gas stations, café-bar and tourist units that either do not cut evidence or do not forward them to Mydata.

Through the tablets and “controller” the tax-auditors will be able to be real time:

  • To “check” by automatic procedures or not the authenticity issued by the cash registers. In addition to the tablets will be equipped with a hand scanners (QRSCANNERS)
  • Check whether businesses have forwarded the invoice and receipts data on the Mydata platform.
  • To conduct express intersections with tax returns, VAT statements, etc.
  • To check the “tax history” of the professional or the business, that is, if they have been in violation in the past or if they are subordinates.
  • Issue and notify the controlled note on the results of the audit on the basis of which sanctions and fines will be imposed in the event of a turnover and non -VAT hiding.

When do shopkeepers are in danger with ‘padlock’

The order to the auditors is clear: Immediate imposition of padlocks on those businesses that are found to evade even for the non -issuance of 500 euros worth of proof.
Shopkeepers who will be identified not to cut evidence or have not sent the evidence issued by the cash registers on the Mydata platform will see a “padlock” into their business from 48 hours to 1 month depending on the severity of the infringement.

The rigorous application of tax legislation and the suspension of the operation of tax evaders mainly concern businesses operating in the tourist areas of the country if violations of the padlock penalty are found.

In accordance with applicable law, a small infringement is enough to suspend the operation of a business.

In particular:

  • Suspension of operations detected for tax evasion is immediately imposed for forty -eight (48) hours, provided that the same control is found either the non -issuance or the incorrect version of more than ten (10) prescribed sales documents or regardless of the multitude, the net value of the goods or services were not issued or not. Correspondingly, it exceeds five hundred (500) euros. The same sentence applies even if the receipts are normally issued, but will not be forwarded to Mydata.
  • In the event that, within the same or the following tax year from the detection of the above violations, the same partial on -the -spot inspection shall be re -identified by the non -issuance or inaccurate issuance of at least three (3) sales documents or the non -transmission to the information system (FM) of at least 3 (3). Another professional installation of the debtor, the operation of the professional installation in which the inspection was carried out is suspended for ninety -six (96) hours.
  • In each subsequent finding by the same partial on -the -spot checking of infringements, within two (2) tax years of their finding in any professional establishment of the debtor, the operation of the professional installation in which the audit was carried out shall be suspended for ten (10) days.
  • If the tax audit is being carried out by the use of violence or threat against the auditors, the operation of the professional establishment, which relates to the audit, up to 1 month by decision of the AADE Governor is suspended.