The Independent Public Revenue Authority is proceeding with the automatic issuance of TINs to dependent minor unmarried children, over 12 years of age.

From next Monday, November 13, 2023, minors who are or will have reached the age of 12 by 12/31/2023 will obtain a VAT number, automatically, based on the data of the 2022 Income Tax Returns and the data AMKA of the parentsas verified by the Civil Registry.

The identification of minors and their parents is achieved through a special interoperability developedin collaboration with the General Secretariat of Digital Government Information Systems (GIPSPDS), and data exchange with the Social Security Electronic Governance (EDIKA).

And all this, without any action from the parents.

How will parents be informed?

Upon completion of the process of providing the TIN, for the minor children who will be identified through the above digital process, both parents will be informed of the TIN, assigned to the child, through:

• electronic notificationto the e-mail address they have registered in the myAADE digital portal, under the path Register & Contact/ Contact Details

• posting, on the myAADE digital portalunder the Registry & Contact/ My Messages path.

In addition, the minor’s TIN details will henceforth appear as “Related TIN” in the image of the natural person relations of the parents, in the digital portal myAADE/Registry & Contact/Data of a Natural Person.

It is estimated that with this process, more than 350,000 minor children over 12 years of age will receive TINs.

Based on the relevant data, today, more than 80,000 applications are submitted annually for the granting of TINs to minor children.

The goal of AADE is, in the second phase, to grant, with the same procedure, TINs to all minor children, from the first year of their agewhich have been declared by their parents in their Income Tax Returns and can be identified with the above digital process.

With the new process, parents are greatly facilitated, as they will no longer need to submit an application and visit the DOU in order to obtain a tax ID for their minor childrens. At the same time, it is ensured that the tax declarations of the parents are completed more fully and the possibility of verifying that they are beneficiaries of the foreseen reliefs, allowances and supports.

It is clarified that the granting of TINs to minors does not create an obligation for them to submit declarations.

Read more at Taxheaven: https://www.taxheaven.gr/news/65411/aade-aytomath-apodosh-afm-se-panw-apo-350000-anhlikoys-anw-twn-12-etwn