Tax audits by the Independent Public Revenue Authority

Τax audits via tablet, “smart” checks for fake receipts, mobile devices for scanning vehicle license plates, electronic detailed checks for undeclared income, retroactive and state aid, but also debtors and missing traders includes the Ιndependent Public Revenue Authority (IAPR) Business Plan for 2022.

Tax auditors will scan the QRcode of receipts to detect any cash registers issuing fake receipts and will use mobile devices that will scan license plates to track vehicles that have been declared that are not used. At the same time, the auditors will start, from this year onwards, tax  audits via tablets that will automatically issue the results of these audits.

IAPR also plans to deactivate 120 VAT numbers belonging to “disappeared” traders. These are natural persons who, while proceeding with the issuance of VAT number at the beginning of their activity, then erased their tax traces to make it more difficult to be detected by the tax control mechanism.

According to the targets, in 2022 the tax audit mechanism will certify revenues of 1.8 billion euros from tax audits and cross-checks, while it is foreseen to be collected 4.4 billion euros from overdue debts ,2.2 billion euros of which from old overdue debts and 500 million euros from large debtors.