Independent Authority

About 35% of businesses and independent professionals who have submitted tax returns on their 2019 income have seen a drop in earnings that dispenses them from having to pay advance taxes on 2020 earnings, according to data released on Wednesday by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR).

As of Monday, the Hellenic Land Registry website www.ktimanet.gr is to start posting cadastral data for the Municipality of Athens. Authorities are calling on more than half a million citizens who have declared ownership of properties within the municipality to check the accuracy of the data recorded ahead of its finalization.

The submission rate of 2019 income tax declarations is growing, according to data from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), with most processed statements incurring no additional tax.

Cadastral data for the Municipality of Athens will start being posted online as of June 1 on the Hellenic Land Registry website.

The Independent  Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR) has announced that transactions with the tax office, customs and the General Chemical State Laboratory of Greece will be carried out strictly via mail or by phone as of Monday.

It's like a chain reaction. Footage and reports of clashes between riot police and migrants on Lesvos fuel the existing frustration. They also promote conspiracy theories while exacerbating deeply rooted phobias in the local population. 

Businesses that fail to replace their old cash registers with a machine from a list of 179 models by June 1 will face fines of 500 euros per tax audit, according to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR).

The total volume of citizens' expired debts to the tax authorities declined slightly in November compared to the month before, data from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue showed on Thursday.

This reduction is mainly due to the fact that a number of old debts have been written off as impossible to collect.

Almost half a million taxpayers failed to pay taxes of more than half a billion euros in August, according to the statistics of the Independent Authority for Public Revenues.

These arrears mainly concerned income tax, where debts grew 15.6 percent compared to the same month in 2018, and value-added tax, where debts increased 5.9 percent from August last year.

State debtors' keen interest in the debt settlement program in which payments can be made in up to 120 tranches has resulted in a massive drop in confiscations, official data showed on Thursday.