Bulgaria to Close Gas Stations Not Connected to Tax Agency

Business | October 18, 2010, Monday // 14:53|  views

The shut down of gas stations that are not connected to the system of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency will be closed down after January 10, 2011. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Gas stations that have not connected their cash registers to the united electronic system of the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (NRA) will be closed after January 10, 2011.

The decision was made Monday at a meeting between the Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, the NRA head, Krasimir Stefanov, and representatives of the three mobile operators in Bulgaria, importers and producers of fiscal devices and the Bulgarian Metrology Institute.

At the meeting, the participants agreed on deadlines for the implementation of the rules for registration and accounting of the sales in the retails.

Until October 22, the three mobile operators are supposed to be ready with the connection of an optic cable, which would help realize the testing of the system and by October 30, NRA would have to create a real environment for the system.

On November 1, the laboratories in the Bulgarian Metrology Institute will begin running technical tests on the connection of the devices to the system. For this purpose, producers and importers of the fiscal devices would have to send their representatives to the experts from the institute.

"January 10, 2011 will be the start day for shutting down all gas stations that are not connected to the system of the National revenue Agency. This is a serious step of the government's fight against the gray sector in the fuel trade," Borisov said after the meeting.

Thevgas stations in Bulgaria are more than 2,000. Half of them are owned by big chains, including Petrol, Lukoil, Shell, OMV.

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Tags: gas station, National Revenue Agency, NRA, Boyko Borisov, Krasimir Stefanov, Simeon Djankov

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