Live retail reporting of VAT transactions to cut fraud In an effort to close the VAT Gap of missing tax revenues many European countries have introduced VAT e-registers in traditional retail and online e-commerce. These provide real-time or batch automated reports to the tax authorities of
Hype? Or is an immutable distributed ledger technology the solution to missing EU VAT revenues? The VAT gap of €136 billion per annum and costly complexity of the compliance rules begs for a technological leap. Is blockchain, made (in)famous by cryptocurrencies, the answer? The appeal
Latest estimate on lost EU VAT shows €6.6bn shrinkage – but COVID-19 effect won’t show till next year The European Union member states are estimated to be losing €134 billion per annum in Value Added Tax revenues based on the European Commission’s (EC) latest ‘VAT
Can the definitive VAT system or other reforms close fraud gap? The European Parliament has reviewed a range of measures to close EU VAT Gap – the difference between forecast VAT revenues versus actuals. This was as a formal European added value (EAV) assessment, to
Whilst Germany shows one of the lowest VAT Gaps in the European Union, there is still room for improvement. That is the conclusion of the state Audit Office which focused in on e-commerce fraud, estimated to cost Germany nearly Euro 1 billion per year. Read
