2024-07-28 16:58:45
The real estate of more than 7 million taxpayers is being targeted by AADE and its new digital weapons, as part of the war against tax evasion. In particular, the owners enter a double suffocating control cord from September, since as Nautemporiki has already written since June, a new electronic database for owners and tenants is being launched and will simultaneously link the file of E9 declarations with the Land Registry.
Double “block” in real estate since September
The new Registry
So here comes the “Property Ownership and Property Management Register”, a new database, which will also be interconnected with the Land Registry. In the said Registry, as mentioned in a report by the RES-MPE, the full details of the properties will be recorded, such as: area, location, floor, electrified, unfinished, empty, co-ownership amount.
But also additional information, such as whether they are leased or granted free of charge, the amounts of the rents and the details of the tenants. Meanwhile, the interface with the Land Registry will allow AADE to proceed with rapid cross-checks for undeclared properties, false data or undeclared rents.
The new file will include all the elements of the “electronic portfolio”, which has been created with the E9 declarations of natural and legal persons, as well as the E2 declarations for real estate leases. The specific data will be transferred automatically, without the intervention of taxpayers.
Comparisons and Crosses
This digital data, according to the APE – MPE, will give the Tax Administration the possibility for comparisons with the data of the tax declarations, with the aim of identifying owners who have hidden real estate or declared a smaller area in order to avoid ENFIA, income tax, presumptions, municipal fees, TAP, etc., or to avoid penalties for possible arbitrary constructions.
At the same time, the Registry will be automatically updated every time a property owner submits a lease information statement that is accepted by the tenant, while it will also be automatically updated whenever an owner declares the termination of the lease of a property. Thus, AADE will have a complete and accurate picture of who and how much they collect from house rents.
Furthermore, according to AADE officials, by linking the Registry with the electronic file of income tax returns of natural and legal persons, it will be possible for the incomes obtained by the owners from the exploitation of their real estate to be pre-supplemented by the Independent Authority on forms E1 and E2 of their tax returns, and tenants’ expenses for rent payments to be pre-filled in form E1.
Connection to the land register
At the same time, the data of the electronic Registry will be interconnected with the Land Registry. The data that will be drawn from the entries made in the Land Registry throughout the territory, will enable the AADE to be able to compare them with E9 and also with E1.
As a result, it is checked whether the taxpayers have declared the properties they own and whether their characteristics, such as surface area, type, use, location, year of issuance of the building permit, etc., correspond to those that are registered in the cadastral services.
Something that will enable express cross-checks by the auditing authorities to identify taxpayers who submit fictitious E9 returns to get tax exemptions, or pay less tax than the real value of real estate, or collect illegal social security allowances.