AADE: Tax audits are being expanded through Facebook and other electronic media

In her caliper tax office e-sales are also falling. Among the items that will be checked for violations are the number of members or friends, customer reviews, reviews and more on the page of each company.

Η  The tax office takes action and targets 1,2 million entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and freelancers. The Governor of the Independent Public Revenue Authority has set new criteria and specific steps to carry out tax audits of cases of the last five years.

According to the instructions issued by the Governor, the audit process now requires the examination of the data for at least one month and the tax authorities will have to look for violations of the Code at multiple levels. Some examples of checkpoints are book entries and aggregations, deductions from Income and VAT expenses, and the return of Payroll Taxes.

Electronic sales are now falling into the clutches of the tax office. Among the items that will be checked for violations are the number of members or friends, customer reviews, reviews and more on the page of each company. Possible targets of the tax office are Facebook and other pages or platform of networking, transactions, product comparison and prices.

Electronic wallet services, such as PayPal, PaySafe, VivaWallet and others, do not escape the new tax audits either. In addition, auditees should be concerned about any POS or e-POS connections they have connected to foreign banks.

Finally, according to the decision of Pitsilis, the whole control process follows eight specific steps:

1. Cases are selected based on specific criteria that must be met.
2. This is followed by compliance and cross-checking of data in specific areas, such as documents, books, tax statements, and more.
3. The auditor's income and purchases are verified.
4. Online transactions are controlled, at the levels mentioned above.
5. False or fictitious tax data are detected.
6. Non-deductible business expenses are sought and income taxes are checked.
7. VAT will be audited. in multiple places.
8. An audit of the F.M.Y. is carried out. and all taxes withheld and paid.

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