Within the next two months, the citizen’s personal number will be fully implemented, which aims to facilitate the lives of millions of people in their transactions with the State. This difficult project is being prepared by the Ministry of Digital Governance and the General Secretariat of Public Administration Information Systems and aspires to change the relationship of citizens with the Tax Office, EFKA, security, transactions. However, the TIN is not abolished since it will form the main pillar of the personal number.
As the general secretary states in “Vima tis Kyriaki”. Demosthenes Anagnostopoulos, “the personal number will help both to better serve the citizen and the security of transactions, as well as to minimize the citizen’s details that each public body needs to maintain to serve us.”
“To Vima” today presents seven questions-answers about the revolution that the personal number will bring to our transactions with the State.
1. What is a citizen’s personal number?
The personal number is the only number that the citizen will need to know for his transactions with the State. That is, we will not need to remember our VAT number, AMKA, etc. to be served by saving a piece of paper that we often had with us with all the numbers for ourselves and our family members. Now each family member will have their own number.
2. How many digits does the personal number consist of? Can the citizen choose them?
It consists of the 9 nine digits of the TIN plus three other digits, two of which the citizen will be able to choose. These three new digits will most likely precede the VAT number. In this way, the citizen will be able to choose his number, making it more “personal”.
3. How and where will the personal number be used?
In the citizen’s physical and electronic transactions with the State. When the citizen visits any public service, e.g. Tax office, EFKA, regions or municipalities, can only give this number without, in any case, being required to remember the VAT number, AMKA, identity number, etc.
4. What will be done with the remaining numbers (AMKA, VAT number, identity number, passport number)?
It doesn’t change anything, i.e. they are not abolished but no one needs to remember them, just as we already don’t need to remember other numbers in the public sector, such as the number in the Civil Registry, for example.
5. What other benefits can the personal number have?
An additional benefit with the introduction of the personal number is that the citizen will obtain a uniform image in the individual State registers, since until today there may be differences between individual elements. For example the name Konstantinos, Kostas, Dinos which may refer to the same person but spelled differently.
6. What applies to the abolition of certificates initiated by the Ministry of Digital Governance?
In the first phase, it is being considered that the State may abolish certificates which even today the citizen presents. Such certificates are the birth certificate and the marital status certificate. To date, considerable effort has already been made to transfer the above data from one agency to another through interoperability, but it appears that several agencies still continue to request the relevant certificates. The measure is expected to be implemented from March. In the next phase, even more certificates are expected to be removed.
7. From when will the issuance of TINs for children who are born be valid? What process should parents follow?
Within the 2nd quarter of this year, the Independent Public Revenue Authority will identify from the AMKA register data the babies that are born and will “send” them the Tax Registration Number as soon as the baby reaches one year of life without the cooperation of the parents. Parents will be informed of this process via an electronic notification, to the email address they have registered in the myAADE digital portal, under the Registry & Contact / Contact Details route, or through a post, in the myAADE digital portal, under the Registry & Contact / My Messages route . In addition, the minor’s TIN details will henceforth appear as “Related TIN” in the parent’s natural person relationship image, in the digital portal myAADE / Registry & Contact / Natural Person Details.
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