A new barrage of controls is coming from the tax office!

"Attack" by the tax authorities on… would-be tax evaders. 200.000 controls are coming in to increase government revenue.

ΜThe Independent Public Revenue Authority is preparing to launch a massive "attack" with would-be tax evaders, but also on those who owe money to the Tax Office, with the aim of increasing the revenues for the state coffers.

As shown in the business plan will be carried out approximately 200.000 taxpayers and customs controls, while at the same time it is planned to exercise suffocating pressure to debtors of Government, while in the design there are also 105.000 telephone harassment of taxpayers to comply with obligations.

High on the relevant list are fresh cases. A foretaste of the business plan for 2019, which is expected to be announced in the coming days, is reflected in the report of the AADE, which was published yesterday and revealed, among other things. revenues of 5,5 billion euros from enforcement measures in 2018 with 816.721 seizures of bank accounts and 8.350 real estate mortgages for debts to the public.

The AADE audit plan for this year includes:

• 25.000 controls by tax offices, the Big Wealth Taxpayers Center and Large Business Control Center as well as eat.
• Tax chase for issuance of receipts by performing at least 56.000 some on-the-spot checks by the Tax Authorities and the individual goal of detecting delinquency in at least 25% of them.
• The Public Revenue Research and Assurance Services will run in parallel at least 16.000 some on-site inspections. The vast majority of these audits are expected during summer months throughout the country, with an emphasis on destinations of increased tourist interest, but without remaining in the untouched and less tourist areas.

The audit plans of AADE include at least the execution 3.000 checks in the whole territory and in all income categories and specifically in:

• companies with a large tax gap in VAT and / or income
• relapsers and offenders of some on-the-spot checks prevention
• companies that have applied for refund of income taxes, VAT and VAT
• random sample of natural persons, tradesmen and legal entities.

The YEDDE, for their part, have been tasked with conducting at least 120 investigative cases involving VAT fraud and at least 500 other tax evasion and smuggling investigations, with at least 49% of them detected as delinquent.

In front of Customs planned to take place at least 57.000 checks of which at least:

• 13.500 in liquid fuels and other energy
• 11.500 in smoky,
• 9.000 in alcoholic,
• 3.000 in forged products
• 8.000 in fluids availableAnd
• 12.000 in other categories.

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