Greek Finance Ministry’s monitoring staff are now turning their attention to the self-employed who had over 200,000 euros credited to their bank accounts last year as well as various entities with deposits or cash withdrawals of over 300,000 euros within a year.
As daily Kathimerini reports today, Minister Yannis Stournaras signed on Monday a decision asking banks to transfer detailed data on those customers to the General Secretariat of Information Systems, as they are viewed as a high-risk group as far as tax evasion is concerned.
Banks will have to submit the 2011 data by October 30 and the figures for 2012 by December 31, while data for this year and every year thereafter will have to be sent to the ministry by April 30 of the following year, according to the decision.
Using the bank data, general secretariat staff will start cross-checking income tax declarations in order to establish any instances of hidden income, undeclared acquisitions of high-value property items (i.e. real estate, yachts, luxury vehicles) etc.
The banks will have to retain the data sent to the general secretariat for another three months, while the ministry will hold on to them for six years following their receipt.
(source: ANSA)
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