ADE: New “weapon” against tax evasion with sweeping digital data crossings

With a new tool it intends to combat tax evasion or, by carrying out thorough crossings and data to identify undeclared incomes. It is a new digital junction unit of AADE which will use, using artificial intelligence, all tax tanks, including digital taxation systems, social media and the internet. The aim of the AADE is to operate in conjunction with all the “tools” of the tax administration, such as the e-books (myDATA), the appodixi application, the interconnection of POS with cash machines and citizens’ complaints platforms in order to enhance the possibility of capturing income not declared to the tax office or taxes not paid. A number of categories of crossings starting in the following period are included within the new unit, which are: Checking the data reported by property owners active in short-term leases. It will be investigated, inter alia, whether the owners of Airbnb and other categories of short-term leases have a Property Register Number in their transactions if they have declared business activity. The identification of suspicious transactions through the development of the statistical methodology. The disclosure of undeclared real estate purchases through available data. The use of data derived from electronic books (myDATA) relating to zero VAT returns The intersection of reported gross hotel revenue with data generated by the Booking platform The search for taxable transaction data from foreign payment services. The AADE arsenal is to be strengthened with other moves expected to be activated by the end of the year. Among these are the new asset increase control information system, the input-output data system, the new Property and Property Management Register. At the same time, the design includes the operation of the Centre for Special Forces for Tax and Customs Controls and Investigations. The aim is to operate as a coordination centre for all specialised tax and customs control units. The priorities of AADE are also to monitor and collect the outstanding debts to the public. The aim of the two new collection centres that have been activated in Athens and Thessaloniki is to search for assets of debtors who have not been declared or undeclared bank accounts. Their responsibilities include, inter alia,: The activation of forced recovery measures to debtors who do not regulate their obligations with the IRS The classification of debtors on the basis of the amount of their debt Auto-monitoring the evolution of outstanding debts that each debtor has The identification by using digital tools of debtors often change home address or professional seat to lose track. Source: RES – ICM