The National Revenue Agency is starting its summer control campaign for compliance with tax and insurance legislation along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It will include seconded fiscal inspectors from the interior of the country, the department specified.
By the end of the season, there are over 6,000 inspections of restaurants, nightclubs, shops, attractions, parking lots and others. Hundreds of sites along the coast have already been placed under active surveillance, and daily monitoring of exchanges and markets that supply hotels with food and drinks will be carried out.
The main goal of the revenue agency is to improve fiscal discipline, increase the share of businesses that voluntarily comply with the rules, ensure an equal business environment and report real turnover.
Within the campaign, when making control purchases, the “secret customer“ method will be applied. Tax inspectors will also make explicit observations, during which sales will be tracked for a certain period of time and the results will be compared with previous periods. The NRA will use each cash register's remote connection to the revenue agency's servers to identify risky traders whose sales are significantly different than usual. During the campaign, it will also be monitored whether seasonal workers have contracts registered with the National Revenue Agency, as well as whether their employers provide them with their actual remuneration.
The revenue agency reminds that consumers have the right to withhold payment to the merchant until receipt of a receipt. This became possible after a change in the VAT Law (effective from January 1, 2024), which aims to strengthen the fight against revenue evasion and unfair competition, as well as the guarantee of consumer rights.
„Strengthened inspections at sea will not reduce the vigilance of the NRA in relation to other commercial establishments. Our goal is to have better compliance with the tax and insurance rules not only on the Black Sea, but also throughout the country. Our practice shows that control campaigns contribute to improving the fiscal discipline of traders. Every year we observe an increase in the number of business representatives who correctly comply with the tax and insurance legislation. This makes us happy, because it shows that we are on the right track and the measures and partnership approach we are implementing are correct.”, commented the executive director of the National Narcotics Agency Rumen Spetsov on the occasion of the beginning control campaign on the Black Sea.