
The two-day lockout measure, imposed by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue for not issuing or transmitting receipts, may deprive businesses of significant turnover, especially when it comes to high-traffic days, but some, however, seem not to be deterred.
For this reason, the auditors of the the Independent Authority for Public Revenue are vigilant and return to the scene of the… crime, in order to determine whether punishment has become a lesson.
And, in the case of this particular business, they did excellently.
It is about the well-known beach bar, in Kavouri, which was locked for two days in the summer, because it had not cut receipts.
What did the auditors find this time?
What is the panic button
As state agency AMNA reports, the company had installed =what has become known on the market as a panic button.
It is a software, which is installed in the tax mechanism and activated with the push of a button, even from a mobile phone.
Once activated, it instructs the tax mechanism to issue within a few seconds all receipts, which have not been issued until that time
The auditors detected it and the company was imposed a four-day lockout.
Smart tax audits
At the same time, the the Independent Authority for Public Revenue is intensifying the controls, as OT wrote, with 1,500 laptops that will include the tax history of audited companies and professionals and 1,700 portable scanners that will “read” the receipts of the cash registers, the arsenal of the tax control mechanism is being strengthened.
The open electronic tender for the supply of the new control means is already “running” with the the Independent Authority for Public Revenue having given a deadline for the submission of offers by November 21, 2023, while earlier, on November 1, according to the decision of the head of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue Giorgos Pitsilis, the obligation to integrate QR is established Code on all receipts that have an obligation to transmit to such to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue.
The procurement of the technological equipment with a total budget of 1,997,800 euros has been included in the Recovery Fund, while according to the tender notice, the supply of laptops allows for remote connection to carry out more effective checks, while the supply of portable handheld scanners (QR scanners ) is expected to meet the needs for the digital identification of documents bearing QR barcodes and to minimize the time it takes to verify their validity.


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