Audit

The audit mechanism must complete each audit it undertakes within two years, according to new rules on the tax administration.

With this move, businesses will stop being hostage to the taxman, while the cases forgotten in drawers will necessarily come out and must be completed quickly.

The inspection in "Pirogov" conducted by the Agency for State Financial Inspection (ASFI), initiated by the Bulgarian Minister of Health, Professor Hinko Hinkov, has concluded. The medical institution reported that no evidence of committed crimes or abuses has been found.

The Greek tax administration (AADE) intends to launch sweeping audits of businesses, based on the average turnover per sector and what self-employed professionals and businesses have declared on the myDATA electronic platform.

Property owners and managers who rent out properties through short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com, freelancers who will activate their card terminals for the first time from January 2024, the 20,000 professionals with low incomes but high gross profits, and those who bought real estate with cash will be the priority for inspections by the Independent Authority for Public R

Appeals by residents or local government bodies (or both), disputes between companies, and service delays in the delivery of required spaces for the establishment of construction sites - e.g. due to the need for expropriations - are just a few examples of the issues that continue to derail the timetables of most of the country's major projects.

Self-employed} professionals will first have to pay the tax based on their presumed income before requesting an audit from the tax authorities and disputing the amount charged to them.

A very small percentage, often less than 10%, of fines imposed by the tax authorities are actually collected.

The Anti-Money Laundering Authority has launched a general financial audit for bribes in railway network owner OSE and its subsidiaries.

The audit was ordered by authority chief Charalambos Vourliotis, a deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court.

Intellexa, the company that sells Predator tracking software, has been fined 50,000 euros by the Personal Data Protection Authority for failing to cooperate with an audit. 

At the same time, the authority has requested that the company provide the data it has been seeking since September, when it launched its probe. 

Sixteen prominent constitutional law professors have strongly criticised Greece's chief prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos after he issued a controversial legal opinion arguing that the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, cannot conduct audits of telecommunication companies to find out who is under surveillance by the country's intelligence agency.