On July 2, the automatic submission of “pre-filled” declarations took place, which the ministry initially announced would reach approximately 1,300,000, but in the end 423,000 declarations were submitted, the Panhellenic Federation of Tax Professionals (POFEE) said in its announcement.
As he pointed out, “this means that until July 26, ie in less than 20 working days, approximately 2,500,000 declarations must be submitted, in addition to any changes that must be made for automatic submitted, after deficiencies and inaccurate information were found.
We remind you that in a press release of our Federation issued on 15/5/2024 we highlighted the specific problems identified, and created a problem with the correct submission of statements and made it impossible to meet their submission schedule. Our goal is to officially inform the services, the Ministry of Finance and the AADE, but also our fellow Accountants and Tax Technicians.
We are confirmed by the reality that in A.1092/13-6-2024, it is considered necessary to extend the deadline for submitting tax returns of legal entities until July 26, 2024, which we repeat is not enough .
Wanting to inform the services, the Ministry of Finance, the AADE, but also the new Deputy Minister of Finance, and of course our fellow Accountants – Tax Technicians, we consider it our duty to publish an updated list of problems, with an indication of the resolution of the time in which it was implemented, as reported to us by Accountants – Tax Technicians from our 52 member associations, as well as fellow Accountants – Tax Technicians in throughout Greece, since the beginning of the tax declaration period.
– Unable to print invoices (Resolved 4/27).
– The result of liquidation is credit even non-credit (Resolved 4/27).
– Child benefit system not updating (Resolved 1/5).
– Refund of 727 not completed (Resolved in May).
– A child who is obligated to submit a declaration cannot submit a declaration if the parent does not submit it first (Resolved 27/4).
– False interest on deposits and loans (there are reports of false interest from some banks).
– Failure to update the social solidarity income system (Resolved 13/5).
– OPEKEPE does not post certificates on its site, to make entries in the books (Resolved 2/5).
– The Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Culture are late in posting salary certificates (Resolved in mid-June).
– Reported that in table 6 of E1, a taxpayer cannot be declared a camper (Resolved 5/13).
– Reported that code 781 during clearance does not include presumptions – incorrect calculation of clearance (Resolved in mid-June).
– Errors were found in the transfer of losses from previous years – they are related to agricultural enterprises (Resolved in mid-June).
– Cars in circulation in 2023, not seen in E1 (Such references still exist).
– There are many complaints of seniors who are forced to go to banks to open accounts to get an account number (Iván) (Resolved 11/6)
– The posting of pre-work program allowances is still pending from DYPA.
– Settlements with less than 500 inhabitants are not recognized in cases where the name of the settlement, as stated in the AADE register, is not fully identified with the name of the settlement as reported by the Hellenic Statistical Service for Census.
– Incorrect calculation of down payment for businesses starting in 2023 (Fixed in mid-June).
– In the case that the claimant is the wife, and has a child with a disability, the reduction is not recognized in the presumptive income (Resolved at the end of June).
– Those pensioners who are retroactively withdrawn from the Equity Fund, are not included in code 269 (Resolved June 8). These retirees did not receive a notice to proceed with submitting an amended tax return.
– Many farmers are taxed presumptively because of the problem of KAD in the registry.
– The system is not updated with the unique financial support provided to pensioners in 2023 (Resolved June 7). These retirees did not receive a notice to proceed with submitting an amended tax return.
– The salary certificate of the long-term unemployed with exceptional financial assistance they received in 2023 was not updated (Resolved June 7). No notice was sent for them to proceed with submitting an amended tax return.
– Police salary certificates were “revised” on June 18 and election compensation was added. No notice was sent for them to proceed with submitting an amended tax return.
– In the event that a self-employed person also has income from hired services due to construction codes (code 311), the system will not only take the amount from the assumed income, but after calculating the tax, it also increases the hired services as a result of the wrong settlement.
– In Forms N of non-profit enterprises, farm income from business transactions is lost/deleted when submitting the declaration. (Resolved early June).
– In N Forms with losses from previous years, the system does not calculate the loss from previous years if the form is not cached first (technical implementation problem), resulting in excessive time lost , because fellow Accountants – Tax Technicians do not recognize the technical system problem.
– When submitting the N form, if the distributed profit of the partners is €0, it is not possible to submit the N form because it does not receive the amount of €0.00 in the corresponding code (Technical problem application). The problem can only be overcome if the amount of €0.01 is entered in the corresponding code, which makes the submission incorrect. No directive was issued by the Ministry of Finance, as a result of which important time was wasted by fellow Accountants – Tax Technicians who were looking for ways to overcome this technical implementation problem.
– If during the submission of the Tax Declaration it is necessary to change the data, the confirmation code from AADE will have a delay of several hours.
– For taxpayers without an IBAN, available appointments for most banks start after August 1, in small towns and in large urban centers.
Problems with automatically submitted filled Tax Returns
– In the House Clearing Statements, there is an issue in Table 8 where the Main Houses where the Power Pass is taken in 2022 are incorrectly posted, with no option to delete or correct them.
– If the parent’s declaration is automatically submitted and the protected child has income in the year 2023, the child cannot submit a Tax Declaration, because it is blocked by the parent’s already submitted declaration. The parent’s declaration cannot be changed. The result is that the child declaration cannot be submitted, because one declaration inhibits the other.
– Submitted pre-filled tax returns where not all codes are filled.
– Submitted completed tax returns where vehicles are lost.
– Submitted pre-populated tax returns where the system incorrectly brought in residential women from the previous year.
– The completed tax returns were submitted where the system incorrectly transferred the rent payable from the previous year.
– Pre-filled tax returns have been submitted where in many cases the deficiencies have not been included.
– Uncompleted tax returns are submitted without any circumstances including real estate and car purchases if they are made within 2023.
– If a taxpayer does not have a registered IBAN, his tax return cannot be submitted. But in the case of house clearances, declarations are automatically submitted without a registered IBAN. Since errors and omissions were found, the amendment of the tax return cannot be submitted for these cases, if there is no registered IBAN.
– There are reports that there is no indication of code 023 for exemption from the electronic collection of receipts of expenses.
In addition to all of the above, we would like to add that on July 1, the full implementation of the Digital Labor Card in industrial and retail enterprises began, with many problems there as well, which means a lot of additional work and time in work for accounting offices.
It should also be emphasized that the month of July is the month of VAT submission, where among all the problems, there is a change in the form of VAT. It creates more problems and malfunctions in the system, with everything it needs in man hours.
Our Federation insists on its position for the legislation of a specific period of time of 5 months for the submission of tax returns, as defined in Law 4172/2013, while the publication of all relevant decisions that first, without legislative changes in the duration of the submission of tax returns, and after the public services are timely and correctly uploading all the necessary data. For any malfunction of the system there must be an equal extension of the tax declarations excluding the month of August during this period. A permanent solution must eventually be provided, as we suggest.
We call on our scientific body, the Economic Chamber of Greece, to step up efforts to support this request of ours. The cooperation and support of the Chamber of Commerce is very important for achieving our goals, because only through coordinated actions can we ensure the rights of Accountants – Tax Technicians.
Especially for this year and from today, in order to complete the submission of tax returns in an orderly and humane working condition, we propose as the only possible deadline, for tax returns of Natural and Legal persons, to be submitted by an Accountant – Tax Technician holding a legal license, which will be September 30, 2024.
In conclusion, we must mention that while article 67 of Law 5042/10-4-2023 allows the extension of the deadlines for submitting tax and insurance declarations and statements, in case of illness, childbirth or death of a tax accountant, more than a year ago and still the regulatory KYA has not been released. We cannot understand this obstruction of the Ministries, which denies the current legal right of Accountants – Tax Technicians to illness. This problem must be fixed immediately, after all, there is a perfect proposal from POFEE”.