BULGARIA: Actions to Improve Tax Compliance in Resorts

tax compliance.Bourgas, on the Black Sea, June 14 (BTA) – The National Revenue Agency (NRA) is tightening the control over compliance with tax and social security legislation along the Black Sea coast during the summer tourist season, the Agency reported Tuesday. The goal is to shed as much light as possible on the tourism sector and ensure proper revenue taxation and payment of social insurance contributions. NRA employees will be deployed to the Black Sea from other parts in the country.

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Bangladesh: Appeal to the government to pay for tax machines

Bangladesh NBRThe government may distribute Electronic Cash Register (ECR) and Point of Sales (POS) machines among traders to prevent evasion of value-added tax.

The traders, who are eligible to use such electronic machines, have to collect those machines mandatory from the government and use them at their selected stores, so no traders can evade the VAT or manipulate the transaction records, said officials.

The government is planning to introduce the system in the wake of rampant VAT evasion across the country.

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Tunisia: fiscal cash registers in 2016

Tunisian ministerLate last year, Mr. Slim Chaker, Tunisian Minister of Finance, announced the changes with the introduction of the fiscal law for the year 2016: “Several decisions will be taken in the year 2016 to fight against tax evasion, including the adoption of cash registers in cafes, restaurants and hotels, to get true amount of sales.” Cash registers should be directly linked to the Ministry of Finance.

The idea is, according to the Minister of Finance to “put pressure on fraudsters and to prompt Tunisian consumer to demand its receipt.”

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SLOVENIA: First results since the introduction of fiscal cash registers

mv-davcne_blagajneThe first results, since the introduction of fiscal cash registers or certified cash registers, are officially announced on the portal of Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia.

Presented results are based on the data from the first quarter of 2016.

It shows that the introduction of certified cash registers has positive effect, which reflects on the increase of the declared turnovers as well as in the increase of the VAT collected.

The total turnover of the taxpayers using cash registers in the period February-April 2016 was EUR 5.4 billion, compared to the same period of the last year increased by EUR 293.3 million (5.7%).

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