Checks in 90 countries on deposits, POS systems, real estate, social media, and assets by the AADE for Greek tax evasion

Bank deposits, POS systems, existent estate, societal media, and assets successful 90 countries are coming nether the caller integer microscope of the AADE (Independent Authority for Public Revenue), which is launching for 2026 an unprecedented strategy of physics cross-checks and “smart” audits powered by artificial quality and large data. The extremity is to make a implicit integer illustration for each payer recognition fig (AFM), allowing taxation authorities to observe suspicious discrepancies, undeclared income, and imaginable taxation evasion adjacent earlier a accepted audit begins.

The AADE’s caller operational program includes much than 194,000 audits and cross-checks, with the taxation inspection mechanics gaining entree to a immense scope of accusation from some Greece and abroad. The taxation medication is present moving toward a real-time monitoring exemplary of economical activity, wherever each disposable accusation volition beryllium gathered astir the integer illustration of each payer and business.

In practice, the AADE volition make a broad physics record for each AFM by connecting information from slope transactions, POS systems and currency registers, VAT declarations and myDATA, existent property transfers, short-term rentals, physics transactions, customs data, and adjacent accusation derived from the net and societal media.

Particular accent is being placed connected deposits and assets abroad. Through practice with much than 90 countries and the automatic speech of fiscal information, the AADE volition person information connected slope accounts, investments, and assets of Greek taxpayers located extracurricular Greece, drastically limiting the quality to fell undeclared capital.

At the aforesaid time, the PARE strategy (Payment Capacity – Attitude – Recency – Event) is being afloat activated. The strategy volition make a elaborate taxation behaviour illustration for each national and business. It volition measure the quality to repay debts, income and banking activity, plus status, behaviour toward taxation obligations, and large economical events affecting outgo capacity. In elemental terms, the taxation authorization aims to cognize not lone what a payer declares, but besides whether their wide fiscal representation matches what appears successful their taxation returns.

A cardinal relation successful the caller exemplary volition beryllium played by the DEOS units — the Financial Transaction Control Forces — which volition behaviour astatine slightest 39,300 audits utilizing concern intelligence, large data, and precocious integer tools. The audits volition absorption connected taxation evasion networks, VAT fraud, smuggling, undeclared economical activity, and suspicious intra-community transactions.

At the aforesaid time, the interconnection of POS systems and currency registers is entering a caller signifier of online monitoring. With caller software, the AADE volition beryllium capable to observe antithetic movements, turnover discrepancies, and businesses displaying suspicious taxation behaviour successful existent time. Meanwhile, physics invoicing is gradually expanding crossed the full market, portion the Digital Delivery Note strategy volition grounds the question of goods live.

Cross-checks volition peculiarly people undeclared income from Airbnb and short-term rentals, undeclared existent property transactions, deposits successful Greek and overseas banks, businesses filing zero VAT declarations contempt precocious activity, cases disputing presumed income, and suspicious e-commerce transactions.

At the aforesaid time, the Property Ownership and Management Registry (MIDA) is being activated — the AADE’s caller unified level that volition stitchery each accusation regarding spot ownership, spot use, leases, and plus changes, efficaciously creating a implicit physics existent property record for each taxpayer.

Overall, the AADE’s 2026 operational program provides for 26,000 taxation audits, 25,400 on-site preventive inspections, 75,000 customs enforcement inspections, 11,000 X-ray strategy inspections, 11,060 inspections utilizing drones and detection dogs, 3,468 inspections done POS systems and myDATA, arsenic good arsenic 6,350 targeted audits based connected hazard criteria.

For 2026, the AADE has acceptable a people of full revenues amounting to €75.45 billion, of which €29.2 cardinal volition travel from VAT alone, portion an further €1.5 cardinal is expected to beryllium assessed done audits, cross-checks, and physics information analysis.