To an important ally of the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) The digital application “Appodixi” is evolving in the fight against tax evasion. Complaints are made through the application that allows citizens to control the legitimacy of the evidence who receive in their transactions, and in the event of non -transmission or deviation to the data, they can send them to the tax authority, anonymous or surname, for further audit.
Since September 2022, when this possibility has been activated, a total of 208,534 reports have been submitted through the application. Specifically, 112,855 branded complaints and 95,679 anonymous concerned “problematic” evidence, according to Ertnews.
The superiority of the branded reports is attributed to the incentive of the cash reward, which reaches up to EUR 3,000, provided that the checks confirm the infringement and impose the fines provided.
‘Record’ of complaints
The complaints of complaints is the Appodixi platform that operates (since October 2023) in the electronic environment of AADE, as it receives thousands of reports on small and large tax evasion cases, with many being the cause of their tax audit mechanism.
So far, 58,907 complaints have been filed, of which 51,252 for tax violations, 753 for customs offenses (mainly smuggling), while in 6,902 cases citizens have reported cases of corruption. 7,374 (about 14%) of these reports are branded, thereby increasing their degree of credibility and signaling that citizens no longer hesitate to report cases of offenses that burden taxpayers themselves and state funds.
Three -member Assessment Committee
A recent decision by the Governor of AADE, George Pitsilis, is set up at the Center for the Audit of the Grand Taxpayers (KEMEF) a three -member committee for the evaluation of information bulletins, with the aim of furthering them.
The purpose of the committee is to control the complaints and to be sorted, depending on their gravity. Tax Authority auditors will examine in detail the anonymous and branded complaints of tax evasion made by citizens with the aim of detecting hidden incomes, illegal enrichment and money laundering.
Each complaint will be examined and scored with those who receive high ratings being directly under review, and will be in the file with a low score. Subsequently, each case is rated on the basis of specific risk analysis criteria.
In each audit service there is a special committee that evaluates and ratings complaints based on a specific scale:
-0: Case with no interest – is set in the file.
-1: Information of little interest.
-2: Significant information that requires further investigation.
-3: Very interesting and extremely important information is transmitted immediately for control.
-4: Excellent information that requires immediate and rapid intervention.