Tax authorities raid restaurants, bars and cafes for “smart” cash registers

The Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) plans to transportation retired sweeping checks connected catering businesses to spot if they person complied by installing “smart” currency registers, which enactment an extremity to tricks with fake receipts and manipulated turnover.

An informal hold fixed to catering businesses to instal “smart” currency registers expires astatine the extremity of August. Already the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) is readying to transportation retired extended audits from adjacent period to spot if businesses person complied.

Most operators successful the manufacture look to person replaced their old-style currency registers, but determination are inactive immoderate of… But determination are inactive immoderate who person immoderate last-minute ones! Reports suggest that astir 60,000 old-style currency registers successful the edifice manufacture person already been replaced, portion it is estimated that astir 5,000 to 8,000 businesses person yet to accommodate to the caller requirements.

The caller currency registers successful the catering manufacture adjacent the mode to taxation evasion tricks, arsenic they forestall operators from closing a currency registry if they person unfastened tables, bid forms that person not been receipted. The receipt is printed lone by the built-in printer, pending orders and receipts to beryllium issued are recorded successful the taxation memory, and a “Z” is issued lone if each unfastened tables person been closed.

During September, AADE audits volition absorption connected bars and restaurants to place immoderate nonaccomplishment to transmit receipts to the e-send system, which volition beryllium checked to spot if they correlate with POS data. According to the AADE decisions, those liable to usage the caller POS systems are those who provide:

– Full-service edifice repast services.
– Those who supply nutrient services with full-service edifice service.
– Restaurant services wrong a full-service edifice with full-service country service.
– Restaurant services wrong a bed-and-breakfast hotel.
– Meal services provided by a restaurant, tavern, food restaurant, grill, with unrecorded euphony by an orchestra of astatine slightest 3 instruments with service.
– Meal services provided by a restaurant, tavern, food restaurant, grill, with unrecorded euphony by an orchestra of astatine slightest 3 instruments with service.
– Catering services from a restaurant, tavern, food restaurant, grill, without unrecorded euphony oregon with an orchestra of little than 3 instruments with service.
– Meal work from a fast-food restaurant, with service.
– Catering services provided by an amusement halfway – cosmopolitan tavern.
– Catering services provided by a vino edifice oregon vino cellar (family business, without staff).
– Catering services from a pizzeria, with service.
– Catering services provided by a grill – souvlaki restaurant, with service.
– Provision of meals and beverages by tavern, spot shop, spot shop, brew store with service.
– Provision of meals and drinks by snack bars, with service.

Excludes catering establishments operating successful settlements with a colonisation of up to 500 inhabitants and connected islands with a colonisation of little than 3,100 inhabitants, according to the past census, but for places considered arsenic tourer destinations.

The good for issuing vouchers from an unauthorized taxation mechanics corresponds to 15% of the gross of enterprises.