The officials of the Ministry of National Economy and Finance are constantly enriching the new package of measures in order to prevent tax evasion as swiftly as possible.
In this context, the measures are expected to include the digital consignment note as well as the new platform that will receive anonymous and named complaints about tax evasion and non-compliance behavior, while the expenses of professionals will pass through the myDATA system of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue.
Greece's new expected tax measures: how they will affect professionals, businesses, and social benefit recipients
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To be more specific, the autumn draft law against tax evasion, among others, will include the following novelties:
- Change in legislation providing tax incentives to natural persons for the use of electronic means of retail transaction payment. The reason is the finding that the existing incentives did not bring the expected results.
- This measure concerns, in particular, electronically paid costs for payment of fees to veterinarians, plumbers, refrigerants, heating maintainers, electricians, plasterers, tile makers, other construction professions, taxi operators, hairdressers, beauty salons, cleaners, photographers, dance schools, gyms, lawyers, educators, domestic workers, and gyms, and requires, in addition to the electronic payment of fees, the issuance of receipts of retail transactions from the specific categories of traders.
- Payment of social benefits through cards
- Specifically, beneficiaries are considered to redeem the amounts they receive through the allowances to businesses, which essentially means that they will not be able to withdraw the cash from these benefits. With this move, the financial team essentially aims for the amounts collected to be spent to cover basic needs. The draft law is expected to clarify exactly which benefits will be included in this measure and whether there will be any exceptions.
- The new electronic platform through which citizens will be able to report cases of tax evasion and smuggling
- The platform will collect all citizens' complaints, both named and anonymous. In particular, citizens who want to report a violation will enter the platform, which will be open to everyone without TaxisNET codes, while filling out a special form with information on the type and time of the tax violation.
- New digital consignment note, so that the control mechanism knows what and where it is moved, since the movement of all products in the market will be checked step by step.
- More effective control of professionals' expenses, as the plan foresees that only those that go through myDATA e-books will be recognized, which means that for each expense, professionals will have to request an invoice.
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