Tax declarations 2024: The platform for their submission has opened – Economic Postman

The AADE has opened the curtain for the submission of this year’s tax returns for approximately 9 million taxpayers (natural persons). As stated by the Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance, Haris Theocharis, “from today, April 25, 2024, the platform for submitting tax returns opens, with a deadline of July 26. The scheduled installments for the repayment of the debts are 8 and reach until February 2025, while if someone chooses the one-time payment of the entire amount owed, he is entitled to a 3% discount”.

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Every natural person is obliged to submit a tax return, as long as he has his tax residence in Greece, has reached the age of 18, regardless of whether he is a dependent member or not and obtains actual or assumed income.

This year, for the first time, approximately 1 million employees and pensioners without income from other sources will not need to submit their returns, as AADE has pre-filled them on their behalf and if they do not press the button for their final electronic submission, they will and this by AADE submitting them automatically, on the final date of the submission deadline. According to Haris Theoharis, “this year we had changes, mainly because we legislated a very important innovation, the automatic completion and submission of the tax return for many of our fellow citizens. So, now, even if someone forgets to submit their declaration by the deadline, they are not in danger of incurring a fine, since the declaration will have been submitted automatically”.

Freelancers

In addition, more than 730,000 professionals will be taxed this year using objective criteria, which will alternatively presumptively determine their taxable income.

Taxpayers should also be aware of the following:

– In the joint declarations of spouses, a separate tax assessment is carried out and two tax assessment documents are issued, one for each spouse.

– Spouses submit a separate declaration if they have declared it. Mandatory separate declarations are submitted in the cases where the married cohabitation has been interrupted at the time of submission of the declaration or one of the two spouses is in a state of bankruptcy or has been subject to judicial support.

– Those who have entered into a cohabitation agreement can submit a joint declaration for their incomes and have the same tax treatment as married people.

– Declarations for taxpayers who died in 2023 are submitted for the income they earned in 2023 until the date of their death, by their legal heirs by 31/12/2024.

– In the event that a minor unmarried child submits a separate tax return and at the same time acquires income of another category, such as for example income from real estate, these are indicated in the declaration of the liable parent.

– In case of late submission of a tax return, the fine of 100 – 500 euros is not imposed if the tax does not exceed 100 euros.