AADE: Why cannot it give 130,000 taxpayers a tax refund? – 2024-06-02 08:29:11

Tax refunds of 93 million euros are within the “drawers” of AADE, which is on the lookout for 130,000 taxpayers to return the cash they’re entitled to. The particular taxpayers haven’t declared the IVAN of their checking account with the consequence that the Tax Workplace can’t pay them.

Among the many 130,000 pure and authorized individuals there are additionally 38,000 pensioners over the age of 70. AADE has despatched everybody e-mails and messages to their myAADE account inviting them to declare their IBAN in an effort to be credited with the cash, however there was no response.

Based on the info, of the 130,000 taxpayers, 127,000 are pure individuals who’ve “acquired” 16 million euros and three,000 companies entitled to 77 million euros.

With out the IVAN assertion, tax refunds will not be made and neither is the cost of the quantities gained by the taxpayers within the tax lottery, with the AADE administrator, Giorgos Pitsilis mentioning that with the brand new software myAADEapp, taxpayers now have the chance to see on the cellular display the tax refunds they’re entitled to and to declare or change the IBAN of their account in an effort to obtain the cash from the tax workplace.

The tax return is “caught”.

This yr, the shortage of IVAN additionally blocks the submission of the tax return, aside from the pre-filled declarations of staff and pensioners, which can be mechanically submitted by AADE on July 2.

Those that attempt to submit their tax return with out having registered the IBAN of the checking account, discover that their return just isn’t accepted on the AADE platform. The system mechanically generates a message informing the taxpayer that he has not declared or has declared the improper checking account, blocking the submission of his tax return.

The measure of the necessary declaration of IVAN on this yr’s tax returns was deemed vital in an effort to “dislodge” the tax refunds that accumulate in AADE.

Particularly, from this yr it’s necessary:

• The IBAN registration within the myAADE digital portal for all tax residents of Greece who haven’t but declared an IBAN, earlier than submitting the tax return.
• The IBAN registration for international tax residents who haven’t declared an IBAN and for whom a proper to a tax refund will come up from the declaration.

Based mostly on the newest clearance figures of the 925,241 tax returns which have been submitted, nearly 1 in 4 returns end in a tax refund. AADE has refunded or offset revenue tax totaling 50.4 million euros for 91% of taxpayers with credit score statements. Particularly, 162,127 taxpayers with none debt have been instantly refunded 34 million euros, whereas for 56,371 debtors, central offsets have been made with the whole quantity reaching 15 million euros.

Supply: OT