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A new conflict started between the retail dealers and wholesalers of fuels in Greece. The Union of the Greek owners of gas stations insists to apply a common electronic system for accounting of the trade with fuels – from the import of the products to the end customer. Besides cash registers, the Union suggests the introduction of a satellite system for integral surveillance of the traffic of fuels from the ports through the processing factories and to the neighborhood gas stations.

On the other side the Federation of the Greek traders with fuels insists for the placement of eight thousand and five hundred cash registers in gas station throughout the entire Greece, without binding to import and export of fuels. The federation of the wholesalers announces that currently systematic violation of the trading activities of all Greek gas stations is carried out unpunished, by not issuing the mandatory primary accounting document – receipt.

The paradox in this case is that under the current active law the owners of gas stations are not obliged to issue receipts to their retail clients. The cash registers which exist in the Greek gas stations are for issuing of receipts only in case of the sale of additional products/goods offered in the trade facility (for example: windscreen wipers, antifreeze etc.), but not for the gas we fill the tank of our cars with.

The collection of receipts is one of the measures which the ministry of finance is introducing in its tax reform. The goal is to achieve effective decrease of the tax frauds and incorrect accounting of annual incomes. The lack of any accountancy of the turnover of the gas stations is in direct conflict with the strict taxation policy, which the government of PASOK announced to follow along with the fight with corruption in Greece.