In January 2026, about 200 members of the financial police suddenly entered 50 Austrian restaurants with the intention of determining whether these establishments use illegitimate software for issuing fiscal invoices. The financial inspection confirmed the suspicion and determined that a developer sold the illegal software, leading authorities to arrest the developer immediately.
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In the first half of the year, and especially during the summer period, the Tax Administration of Serbia conducted a large number of targeted visits to sales locations.
Summer is a period when many fairs, catering, music, and tourist events are held. It is a time when everyone feels relaxed, especially since a large number of these events take place in open spaces. During this period, the Tax Authority intensifies field controls to determine how taxpayers behave in the fiscalization process.
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the VAT – the tax which represents the highest percentage in tax revenues for governments around the world. For some countries, it can be as high as 37% to 40% of the countries’ total yearly collection earnings.
However, this tax would never have existed if, on April 10th 1954, a man in France named Maurice Lauré did not have the vision to create a tax that would not tax the turnover but the added value produced by companies. This vision has clearly been a huge success, so much so that the VAT has even been widely referred to as the “fiscal Grail”.
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Morocco, a country with a population of next to 40 million inhabitants, is slowly but steadily adopting decisive fiscalization practices, expecting to fully embrace them by 2026.
Will they be able to overcome all obstacles and delays they have had since its conception?
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This September, the Tax Administration of Finland (Vero Skatt) carried out an action to check compliance of taxi drivers in the context of tax obligations (fiscalization). The action included 850 taxpayers and the potential loss (non-recording cash payment, unaccounted revenue, undeclared pay) was uncovered in the amount of 16 million euros. This is a large amount for this sector of taxpayers and for a relatively short period and relatively small sample.
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Since 2010 the government has secured and protected over £185 billion of tax that would otherwise have gone unpaid, and introduced over 100 measures to crack down further on avoidance, evasion, aggressive tax planning and unfair outcome
Budget 2018 has announced that the government will publish a call for evidence in relation to ESS. This means that HMRC are looking to update their methods of monitoring and taxing profits of businesses to ensure they keep pace with the evolving technologies taxpayers utilise.
Read More›The Australian Tax Office announces its plan to protect honest businesses from tax evaders, especially focused on those advertised as “cash-only”.
Focus of the investigation is on those businesses who:
This effort can support with evidence found that anti sales suppression system is necessary to be put in place in the near future.
John Yin of Everett has admitted to fraud and conspiracy charges and agreed to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution after selling software that helped restaurants hide cash sales to reduce their tax payments.
He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Friday to one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the government.
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rateur Zai Jian Liang, who runs Tasty Zone Restaurant in East Tamaki, filed 113 incorrect tax returns between 2009 and last year.
An Inland Revenue investigation found Liang and his wife Guan Hong Liang failed to declare more than $1 million in cash sales and about $500,000 in PAYE.
The couple also fraudulently claimed $30,000 in Working for Families tax credits.
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Late 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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