Automatic analysis of tax records by computer programs, allowing quickly and effectively detect any abnormalities. In this way, the Ministry of Finance wants from 1 July to fight phishing schemes taxes, forcing companies to keep records in electronic form according to a specific formula. Experts praise the direction of change, but warned that in the hands of incompetent officials a new tool can harm honest businesses.
Update 20:02
On Tuesday, the finance Ministry published a logical structure Single File Control (JPK), that is, the parameters determining the form of bookkeeping, records of transactions VAT, or VAT invoices. Since mid-year obligation will include large companies (over 250 employees, or 50 million zł annual turnover), and from 2018 he also medium and small.
The Ministry stresses that the partial automation of tax inspections will bring 200-300 million zł savings per year, but much more important will be to improve and speed up the treasury control. Chief Tax Inspector, Deputy Finance Minister Wieslaw Jasinski, declares that the introduction of JPK will not only seal Taxes VAT and CIT, but also to combat unfair competition.
As learned money.pl the Ministry of Finance, data Single File control will be collected by the government data Centre in Radom.
Michal Borowski, tax advisor and expert in the Business Centre Club, in an interview with money.pl notes that the presented system JPK is if the database and still We do not know what will be the tax authorities were able to do with this data. He adds that a lot depends on what programs will support a database that will allow quickly and effectively capture of irregularities and fraud.
He gives an example in which the company o.o. a month since the foundation is able to generate a turnover of 100 million zł – is just such a situation should capture program and give the officials the material that will be able to sprawdzić.Jak says, now the IRS is “a step, and even a few steps behind the criminals who run extortion taxes and when he realizes the company no longer exists and there is no way to collect the debts. “
Radoslaw Baker, tax consultant and expert of the Center for the Club Jagiellonian also stresses that JPK is the” only way to transfer data, they must be also analyzed accordingly. ” – What matters is not only the speed but also the quality of these analyzes. We are talking about a huge amount of data, you need to have the proper tools and personnel to be appropriately analyze – he says.
The expert also draws attention to the automation of tax inspections will be for honest companies to some extent beneficial because it should significantly shorten the duration of the inspection. Points out, however, that the checks will be of a shorter duration, the tax authorities will be able to carry them more.
– This, however, is not inherently bad, because now we are in Poland, the problem of tax avoidance – says Baker. – Such information solutions are truly commendable, I do not agree that you can call it tightening the screws entrepreneurs – estimates.
A more skeptical in this regard is Michał Borowski, who believes that JPK is a powerful tool that in the hands of incompetent officials may pose a threat to legally operating businesses. He says that the system will not resolve anything, at the end there is always a human being.
In his opinion, it happens that treasury officials do not understand the business, specificity of certain industries and often normal operations they consider suspicious. And through it sometimes, instead of catching criminals, focus their efforts on legally operating companies that work in good faith, they were in the chain of transactions aimed at swindling VAT. Borowski acknowledges that before the Ministry of Finance is a lot of work to raise the professional level officials.
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