The AADE is putting special inspection crews on the streets from today, which will visit street markets, stop and check taxis, pass by kiosks as well as theaters, cinemas and even festivals. The auditors are targeting professionals from 35 industries who will need to have a POS for their customer transactions.
Those found not to have installed the terminals for card payments will be confronted with fines of 1,500 euros per violation, with the information stating that there will be tolerance for cases of obligees who will prove that they have ordered the POS and the delay is due to the suppliers.
Calls to 12,000 businesses
At the same time, AADE will send a call to approximately 12,000 businesses that have not made any move to connect their cash registers with the POS, nor have they announced an appointment with a technician within April to avoid the fine.
The Ministry of Finance announced that more than 255,000 businesses have either completed (145,000) the interconnection of cash registers with POS, or have made an appointment with a technician (110,000) by the end of April, even making the relevant required posting on the AADE platform. But there remains a percentage of about 10% or about 30,000 businesses which have not done the slightest thing. Of these, the Ministry of Finance estimates that approximately 20,000 are seasonal businesses which, by law, have a margin of interconnection until the day before their start of operation, and approximately 10,000-12,000 have not made the slightest move to interconnect, reports ot.gr.
The first step that AADE will take from today is to ask these businesses why they have not done anything. Specifically, AADE will contact them in order to establish whether the delay is due to force majeure or negligence so that the relevant decisions can then be made.
Competent sources clarify that in the case where the specific businesses cite substantial reasons for force majeure, they will be treated with leniency. In the opposite case, the stipulated fines will simply be imposed, 10,000 euros if they keep simple books and 20,000 euros if they keep simple documents.
These fines are halved for businesses that are established in settlements with a population of up to 500 inhabitants and on islands with a population of up to 3,100 inhabitants (except for tourist ones). In case of recurrence within five years, the fines are doubled and for each subsequent violation they are tripled.
So far over 255,000 businesses have completed connecting their cash registers to POS or have scheduled an appointment to do so by the April 30 deadline. This is essentially 90% of businesses, which are obliged to “marry” cash registers with POS.
The deadlines
The timetable for the interconnection of POS with cash registers foresees the following:
- The deadline for completing the process is April 30, 2024:
-Businesses that did not proceed with the interconnection of their systems within March, but have a scheduled appointment with an installation technician within April.
-Businesses that have declared in the POS Registry that they are going to replace their cash register system with one of the newly available all-in-one solutions, which does not require additional interface actions. Already, two e-invoicing providers have been approved with such solutions and more are expected very soon.
- Until April 30, 2024, the deadline for withdrawing the tax mechanisms (EAFDSS) from the companies that use them has been set.
- Businesses that use a cash register system with ERP software and must follow the basic interconnection rule of A.1155/2023 for their POS, have until May 31, 2024.
- Business cash registers that are closed for any reason (e.g. seasonality) and will be opened after the end of the above schedule should be connected to the POS terminals they have from the first day of business reopening.
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