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tagged: 1984, Algirdas Semeta, big brother, consumers, electronic transactions, EU, Eu Commissioner, Finance Minister, Giorgow Papaconstantinou, Greece, personal data, protection, smart card, taxes, VATGreek e-Smart Card: the wonder that makes me wonder
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Editor
my virtual 
reality
According to the grand plans of Greek FinMin or his technocrats, most probably aliens from outer space, every taxpayer will be equipped with a so called smart card, that he will use for all his payments and purchases. The card will have embedded the Tax Identification Number of the citizen and a bar code. This will enable the Ministry to monitor the Value Added Taxand calculate in advance how much it has to expect as state revenues. Then this wonder card will enable the automatic calculation of taxpayer’s necessary receipts and calculate the tax refund.
According to FinMin the Greek taxpayer shall be released from collecting receipt. What FinMin didn’t revealed is that the Greek taxpayers will not be released from collection of their data and possible misuse.
alien
warrior
An example
Let’s say, within 2 hours of a rainy afternoon you buy a loaf of bread (EUR 0,70), some cheese (EUR 5,00), a bottle of wine (EUR 11,00) a television set incl. DVD player (EUR 550), a package of cigarettes (EURO 2,90) and a 6-pack of preservatives (price unknown). The moment you enter your apartment, the state can say ”Hey fella, I know what you’re up to!”.
I don’t event dare to think how you will manage to get rid of hundreds of possible Ads praising preservatives and liquor that will start overflooding your mail box.
Finance 
Wizard
EU-Commission objections
If you wonder, how comes no other debt-driven country with similar immoral taxpayers has imposed so far this smart system, read the next paragraph:
Economics Greek portal Capital.gr writes that the EU-Commission has already raised objections to the plan, which in fact has been known as an idea since last March. The portal quotes Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Algirdas Semeta, as saying: “Although the goal of tax law enforcement is fair, the question arises if the proposed system complies with the principles of necessity and proportionality in relation to the target, especially since the proposed system would trigger automatic decisions on subjects in the data, such as technical configuration features, which may allow tax authorities to access personal data beyond the original, legitimate purpose and treat them accordingly”.
OH! 
NO!
In short and simple words: Individual taxpayers’ cards with bar codes involve the processing personal data of consumers. Individuals need to be protected against the processing of their personal data and the free circulation of these data. There is an EU-Directive on this matter… Hellooooo??????????
Finance Ministers’ plans reveal that ….
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Cultural Gap: None of our intellectual Ministers (FinMin, PrimMin, ETCMin) has ever read Orwell’s 1984
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Economic Gap: Greek State will invest huge in super innovative technology
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Planning Gap: Outer space technocrats design my reality
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Television Gap: Big Brother is not just a TV show
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