Tax authorities in Crete fined a nails technician with 35,000 euros for offering services without paying taxes.
Accompanied by police, a team of the independent Public Revenue (AADE) was carrying out controls aiming to combat tax evasion on the island of Crete last week,
were carried out last week in Chania, in the context of combating tax evasion and practicing a profession without following the legal procedure.
According to local media zarpanews.gr, the AADE inspectors paid a visit to a residence in Chania, where a woman was providing nail care services.
Inspectors had reportedly located the woman after she had published some ads on social media.
The nail technician had no started a professional business service with all obligations and she had not issued receipts for the money she received by her clients.
They fined her 35,000 euros in total, even though it is unclear how inspectors came up with such an amount and how many years the woman run her “illegal” business.
Last autumn, the finance ministry had announced that it would launch audits of social media users who allegedly run a business and find clients online without paying taxes.
PS some Greeks still cannot understand why tax authorities do not go after private doctors who mostly do not issue receipts for clients’ visits starting at €50 euros and jumping over 150 euros.
Tax evasion is a massive problem. It’s built into the DNA of almost all and caused to a great extent by corrupt politicians. The abandoned €6m sports ground in Crete is just one example. Huge fines for the little people is the easy way out.
When the government become legitimate perhaps the civilians will follow suit!
One could say that she was ‘nailed’.
Bad joking aside, she probably would not earn 35k per year just doing nails although the beauty sector can be profitable, so I heard.
Just very easy to go after little people and not the big ones. What again happened to the CD with thousands of names of people that evade taxes, and that was send to the EU?