Tax inspectors to probe web

Some 1.2 million freelance professionals and small companies are set to come under the lens of the tax authorities, which will be scrutinizing their last five years of activity, as the head of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue Giorgos Pitsilis has issued a decision setting new criteria concerning their monitoring.

Inspectors will not only focus on conventional sales since 2014 but also those made online. The scrutiny will extend to the number of members or friends of an enterprise and comments and reviews on websites and social platforms such as Facebook. It will even include electronic payment services such as Paysafe, Paypal etc, as well as any connections between card terminals (POS or e-POS) and foreign banks.

In the preparation stage before each inspection, officers will examine whether all necessary declarations have been submitted for all types of...