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Restaurateurs and hoteliers from midnight on December 1st until 09:00 have sent to the servers of Financial Administration 468,000 receipts. According to earlier estimates the first wave of fiscalization by EET affected 40,000 taxpayers.

“EET operation is running smoothly and without any problems. Response time from central system is on average far below one second, even less than a tenth of a second” said TA’s spokeswoman Petra Petlachová.

In March this year, after exhausting debates, the Government of the Czech Republic adopted a fiscal law “Act on Registration of Sales 112/2016”. See our encyclopaedia for more details.

Delay in official decision did not stop competent revenue departments to work on fiscal processes preparations. For this reason, until today, lot activities had started and accomplished.

Although Belgium Government has justified their reasons for introduction of so called black box devices (fiscal data module) to prevent VAT cheaters who manipulate tax liability by adjusting or deleting their journal records, there is a resistance by business associations in Horeca sector who have triggered a request to delay security device implementation.

An audit into 40 private companies throughout South Africa has revealed more than R80 million worth of tax fraud‚ the SA Revenue Service said on Thursday.

SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane on Thursday revealed a new strategy to combat non-compliance companies in “high-risk sectors”.

Moyane said that the “cash and carry industry” was identified as one of the high risk sectors SARS aimed to focus on.

“Over the last six months SARS’ risk processes have selected more than 40 companies operating in this space for audit. To date‚ full audits have been conducted on a number of these companies‚ and non-compliance to the value of R80 million discovered. They owe taxes ranging from R500 000 to R20 million‚” he said.

Moyane said that the money included withholding of VAT payments from cash sales‚ illegal repatriation of funds to global tax havens and fraudulent vat refund claims.

Merchants in France will use an anti-fraud retail system soon.

Pharmacies, restaurants, bakeries, florists, hairdressers, supermarkets … These professions are under the tax administration radar because they are part of the majority group that cheat on VAT. The reason is simple: their customers can pay in cash for their product/service. To fight against this tax authority in France will use new instrument. As of 1 January 2018, the VAT payers must use only secure and certified POS software and cash registers. This measure was adopted last month in the National Assembly within the framework of the first reading of the Finance law for the year 2016.

Cash-based businesses got the first taste of certified cash registers as a one-month trial began on Tuesday (December 2nd) ahead of the mandatory nation-wide rollout as of 2016.

The Financial Administration said 166 users issued 3,000 receipts with the new system by the afternoon, a fraction of the millions that will be issued on a daily basis once the system is in place.

The new system, an attempt to thwart tax evasion, connects cash registers directly with the revenue service’s central IT system, where the receipts are confirmed before they are printed out.

Between September 15 and October 15, 2015, auditors from FPS Finance will visit some horeca (hospitality) taxpayers, who according to FPS Finance records already have an active certified cash register system.

During these visits, they will copy the data from Fiscal Data Module (FDM) and certified cash registers.

The Finance Ministry is planning to send tax inspectors back to businesses where auditors have been physically attacked. Inspectors have already received instructions for dealing with businesses where they face violence – which are usually the most likely to engage in tax evasion. The instructions state that the auditors can request police assistance at any time.

Checks in recent days have seen attacks on auditors on Myconos, including an incident at an island hotel where two tax inspectors were verbally and physically confronted. Angry hotel staff forcibly removed and destroyed their findings.

TITLE:

An act to amend the tax law, in relation to prohibiting the use of automated sales suppression devices, zappers or phantom-ware

PURPOSE:

To make it illegal for a person to knowingly purchase, possess, install, update, maintain, upgrade, transfer or use any automated sales suppression device, zapper or phantom-ware.