The Belgian tax authorities are looking to belastingontduikende internetverkopers and wants verkoopsites indicate which sellers are liable to pay tax. There is now no control on, while internet sales were 3 percent of gdp would produce.
The Belgian Internet Service Center, a project of the Special Belastingsinspectie, according to The Morning about ‘software with a powerful search of the internet scans to the phone numbers of certain internethandelaars. So can sellers under different nicknames to work on different websites to be found. Also be images of the items on the different verkoopsites found with ‘image recognition’software. The tax authorities are looking for as to sales data, and compares this with the tax return to see if there is fraud in the game.
Currently can only to Belgian merchants are searched for. There will soon be changing, as Belgium is a international convention signed that the tax office allows also the data of foreign sellers on Belgian websites.
Currently, BISC only still in contact with the sites, such as eBay, Kapaza, 2dehands and trap them, to make them aware on the reporting of taxable sales. Whether or not one is liable, depends on the annual income from the sale and of the regularity of payments. “We found a retiree who is under seven nicknames postcards sold in a year revenue recorded between 250,000 and 300,000 euros,” says the project manager of the BISC.
In the Netherlands the Tax and customs administration since 2005, a webspider, called Xenon, which the web and harvests and pages download. The spider is mainly intended to non-registered entrepreneurs to get caught on tax fraud.