Temporary employment

Only 1 in 5 has got the IRIS system

Just 260,000 freelancers and self-employed people have so far registered in the system of accepting payments through their account, a service supported by IRIS of DIAS Interbanking Systems SA. The number of registered freelancers falls well short of the total number active in Greece - 1.3 million - and the deadline expires at the end of March.

Reforming taxation

The intervention attempted in the taxation of freelancers and the self-employed could find resistance everywhere: Those affected may consider it too high, while salaried employees, who are not able to hide their income, may consider it cowardly, as the income that the self-employed are required to declare is placed at the minimum wage level.

Tax inspectors to start with cabbies, plumbers and electricians

Taxi operators, plumbers and electricians will reportedly be the first professions to be scrutinized by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) to see if their declared income and expenses match their lifestyle.

Those from the above categories who declare expenses of at least twice as much as their income will undergo inspections.

Suspicious returns in tax authority’s focus

Freelancers and the self-employed are being targeted by the control mechanism, especially those who declare incomes up to 10,000 euros, while at the same time having expenses that are twice as much.

Those who in the previous year presented large discrepancies in their declarations (between income and expenses) will be checked as a matter of priority and the rest will follow.

The freelance tax saga continues – with many aggravated

Freelancers representatives stated that their members are dissatisfied with the adopted legal solutions that are meant to resolve their status, although the state adopted the regulations in the agreement already made with freelancers after years of negotiations, causing aggravation and condemnation of regular taxpayers.

Democracy Digest: Slovak Democracy on Trial as Election Looms

'Trial of the year'

After an investigation that opened a Pandora's Box of revelations about high-level corruption, the trial of four people accused of the brutal killing started this month.

In December, Zoltan Andrusko, a restaurant owner from the southern town of Komarno, was sentenced to 15 years for Kuciak's murder in a separate trial.

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