- Greece is proposing to adopt Article 199 of the EU VAT Directive for the VAT Act in 2025
- The proposal is to remove the cash element of VAT from B2B domestic construction services to fight fraud
- This means VAT will not be charged by the vendor, and the customer will record the transaction as a ‘reverse charge’ with no cash payment
- Greece already operates the domestic reverse charge on sectors such as mobile phones, laptops, electricity, certain scrap materials, and carbon trading certificates
- The anti-fraud measure is popular across the EU, but a generalised domestic VAT fraud measure has not been widely adopted
Source: vatcalc.com
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