About 3.8 million VAT IDs have been tested in the last year
In the target of her AADE have entered 20 acquaintances influencers, who may charge up to 10,000 euros for a post, as well as persons who may declare incomes of 10 to 30,000 euros, but may have spent … a few hundred thousand, according to a television broadcast, according to a television show, The spokesman for the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, Homer Tsapalos.
Mr. Tsapalos clarified that it was created Special impact group by the Independent Authority On the issue of influencers, while here and here about a year a large intersection of data from the service is running out of the service, according to which 3.8 million VAT IDs have been checked and about 800 people have been called for explanations.
“A year ago a huge intersection of elements from AADE had begun. 3.8 million VAT IDs, natural and legal entities, were checked. And the mass controls ended in about 800 people, who, while declaring very low amounts as income, 10, 20, 30,000 euros a year, were presented, according to electronic transactions that have made the markets, to have incomes multiplied, One hundred times. That is, to have 10,000 euros in income and waste 300-400 thousand euros a year. That is why each of them will be called upon to explain, AADE is in the process of communicating with these people. The explanations that will bring us are convincing and justify their expenses, are waiting to see. These are 2023, the same process will begin massively for 2024 in a more automated way, using more sophisticated digital methods to not take many months for the results, as it was in 2023, ”Mr Tsapalos told Action24.
“Checks will be done digitally with the use of algorithms. We will check out the expenditure, declared, account movements, where it is allowed and does not need to remove bank secrecy in order to all enter a single platform, evaluate and come out of a number of candidates for checking, ”added Mr. Tsapalos, referring. in the way in which the checks will be made from now on.
For black money trafficking, the spokesman for the Ministry of National Economy said that when there is “a large market for black money, then bells are ringing, and the fines are heavy … you pay the amount of the amount you tried to hide plus 50% penalty shootout. , unless we are talking about other criminal offenses, such as VAT hiding, where the fines are greater. “
Regarding the influencers and their income from post -social media advertising posts, Mr Tsapalos said: “There has been a search for 20 cases of influencers active in Greece. Hundreds of checks have been made. A Task Force has been set up for some time now, a impact group in the AADE that only does it. It essentially scanning the internet influencers activity daily. Beware, we do not scan just faces. We do not become “Big Brothers” of each of us on social media to see if she is swimming in a pool or sea, if he has an expensive car. But when there are people doing commercial activity on the internet, they advertise products and make a transaction with a business that gives them a product and says “promote it”, there we are talking about another level of research, there we are talking about commercial activity that needs control. In fact, all social networking platforms impose the following: If I go and advertise a product or service, I have to say that it is a product placement, a commercial transaction with a supplier, a company. If I do not, I am targeted and this is not only the case in Greece. The European Commission has begun a great deal of research across Europe on influencers who do not declare what they do … We are talking about big cases, showbiz people, with hundreds of thousands of followers. and added, among other things::
There is no tariff on this because we are talking about black money. Various amounts and costs move. A post may also need to give 5-10 thousand euros to make a large influencer. “We are talking about too much money, these cases are controlled. There are also serious influencers who do their job normally. “
