ATHENS – Greek businesses who don’t hand out receipts and violate tax laws could be shut down for a month instead of the current penalty of two days, with restaurants, taverns and stores on tourist-filled islands especially being targeted.
The Independent Authority for Public Revenue has so far closed some 140 businesses across Greece for two days, a minor penalty given how much they make by not reporting their income and evading taxes, for which they aren’t prosecuted.
As a further deterrent, the inspectors will hit one so-far unnamed business with the first monthly shutdown, Kathimerini said.
Under the law, customers can refuse to pay for goods or services unless getting a receipt but there’s an understood wink-wink procedure in which clients can can lower prices for some goods or services if they don’t ask for a receipt although restaurants don’t lower their prices even if they don’t issue receipts and hide their income.
The practice is especially rife on the islands where some inspectors have been attacked for trying to penalize businesses with no reports of anyone being penalized for it as Greeks often disobey laws they don’t like, which are most of them.
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