The new bill for You are nowhere was tabled in Parliament, bringing changes in the framework of the statement in question.
The competent committees of the Parliament will discuss the proposed regulations of the so-called Pothen Eschesh and concern the declarations of assets and declarations of financial interests, before it is put to a vote by the Plenary.
With the new law, the spouses and partners of the debtors are included in the audit, as it is stipulated that the spouses, the estranged spouses or the persons with whom the debtors have entered into a cohabitation agreement are now required to submit No Documents, regardless of whether they are Greek citizens, if they reside permanently or not in Greece, if they are tax residents of Greece or not, if the marriage took place or if the cohabitation agreement was concluded in Greece or abroad.
Even if the above persons do not have a VAT number, they will be granted a VAT number for a special purpose in order to submit the declaration. It should be noted that now, the obligation to declare includes the assets whether they are located in Greece or abroad.
Automation in data transfer
In addition, the transfer of the data will be done automatically, while expanding the scope of the examined elements.
In particular, in addition to the data of the last income tax return, the real estate data, the amount of the balances of deposit accounts, payment accounts, safekeeping accounts for precious metals and coins, details of lockers, data for each used vehicles, floating or aerial means of transport, as these data are kept electronically in AADE and in the Vehicle Registry of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, holdings in any kind of companies or enterprises, as these data are kept electronically in GEMI (except for those relating to anonymous companies), as well as information on all types of debt obligations of the debtors if each of them exceeds the amount of 5,000 euros.
A “window” is given, however, for banks (without customers) which will now have the possibility of opting out, under conditions, from the obligation of automatic data transfer. For this reason, they should submit a relevant responsible declaration, with penalties in case of false information.
On the contrary, all financial institutions and credit institutions, including branches of foreign credit institutions and foreign financial institutions provided that they have active clients of natural persons, are obliged to transmit to the application all the data they have on specific assets and on the submission of both initial and annual returns.
Finally, it is worth noting that, apart from politicians, those who acquire the status of a debtor during the period from 28.2.2023 to 30.9.2024 are exempted from the obligation to submit an initial declaration, as long as they submitted an annual declaration for the year 2021 and are required to submit an annual declaration for the years 2022 and 2023.
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