To increase the collectability from debts and debts through its tools AADE and her General Secretariat of Information Systems and Digital Governance is attempted by Municipality of Thessaloniki.
At the same time, he has initiated the procedures so that the calls of the Municipal Police to be electronic and not the familiar pink pieces of paper that drivers see on the windshields of their vehicles. At the moment the central municipality has registered debts of citizens only from calls for KOK about 5.5 million euros. These are confirmed calls from 2020, 2021, 2022 and some from 2023.
The municipality of Thessaloniki has made a request to AADE to gain access to the Citizens’ Communication Registry in order to be able to send emails and inform citizens about their debts. Goal, as he explained to Voria.gr The Deputy Mayor of Finance Giorgos Arvanitis is for the municipality to be able to send updates on their debts, as the tax office does. The vice mayor of Finance has 235,000 calls which correspond to approximately 105,000 files (there are also citizens with more than one call). The municipality will seek to send them through AADE and not to burden the municipality financially. Of course, as Mr. Arvanitis clarified, in the event that this cooperation does not begin immediately for the municipality’s access to the Citizens’ Contact Register, the standard procedure of sending them by mail will inevitably follow.
The objective of the municipality is to increase its collection through AADE. According to the deputy mayor, if citizens’ debts are sent through the tax office, it is estimated that collections will increase.
“We will save a lot of time and we will have greater collectability”, emphasized Mr. Arvanitis. “We are waiting for the response of the Ministry of Finance regarding the certification of debts through AADE for the uncollectible debts”, said the mayor Stelios Angeloudis to the city council, sending a message that the municipality is entering a new digital reality.
Actions for electronic calls and not pink slips
There were not a few times when complaints were made not just about the calls the drivers received, but because they found them damaged on their vehicles. The municipality has now, according to the Deputy Mayor of Finance, Giorgos Arvanitis, started the actions so that the calls of the Municipal Police are given electronically and the pink slips cease. “We have made moves to give electronic calls. We no longer want to leave the pink paper, but one from a printer which will have the payment code (RN)”, Mr. Arvanitis emphasized. As he mentioned, today, the municipal policeman leaves the pink paper in the vehicle and the white one goes to the municipality to be registered in the computers. “We now have to modernize and the call goes to the mail or to the citizen’s cell phone,” he noted.
