Giorgos Pitsilis

The first of the two new Capital Taxation Centers (KEFOK), which undertakes to ensure the effective taxation and control of real estate, is to be activated on Monday. Their monitoring is leaving the local tax offices and all orders to them will be given centrally.

In the past, there were many cases of different interpretations, as well as glaring cases of mistakes by tax officials.

The tax administration has issued instructions to the customs control mechanism on the measures and fines they must impose in cases of fuel smuggling, and mainly on the obligations that the companies trading petroleum products and the refineries now have in relation to the gas stations, with which they do business (due diligence measures).

Taxpayers now have the ability to pay taxes, make appointments with the tax office, save all the necessary tax documents, and be updated on payment deadlines from their smartphones.

The tax administration intends to reward debtors who are consistent with the payment of dues to the state, and to establish new criteria and simpler procedures for granting evidence of tax awareness and debt certificates.

The Finance Ministry and the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) are bringing an end to the concern about the submission of tax returns for about a million salary earners and pensioners.

The director of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), Giorgos Pitsilis, in a presentation at the 5th Tax Law Conference on Wednesday, presented the plan for the introduction of artificial intelligence in its services.

Live video calls with a representative will be available at myAADElive, the online portal of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) as of December 21, it was announced on Monday.

Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) Governor Giorgos Pitsilis spoke of progress in transforming the tax authority's organization and its services to the public at the 25th Capital Link Investment Forum in New York earlier this week.

He focused on the digitization of services that led to more effective procedures, and the use of technology to improve tax inspections.

Officials are using warlike language when talking about their new efforts to fight tax evasion.

"We are adding another weapon to our arsenal, so we can achieve even more immediate results," Giorgos Pitsilis, head of the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE), said Wednesday when talking about the new capabilities of the authority's operations center.

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) is responding to tax evasion with artificial intelligence and with special inspection crews for businesses that show high activity but not the corresponding revenues.