Reporting Requirements and Transparency
? All banks should be obliged to report foreign
exchange transactions of more than 10,000 DM
(whether in one transaction or cumulatively by the
same legal entity). The daily report should be
submitted to the Central Bank. In extreme cases,
the transactions should be investigated.
? All the ZPP account numbers of all the firms in
Macedonia should be publicly available through
the Internet and in printed form.
? Firms should be obliged by law to make a list of
all their bank accounts available to the ZPP, to the
courts and to plaintiffs in lawsuits.
? All citizens should be obliged to file annual,
personal tax returns (universal tax returns, like in
the USA). This way, discrepancies between
personal tax returns and other information can lead
to investigations and discoveries of tax evasion
and criminal activities.
? All citizens should be obliged to file bi-annual
declarations of personal wealth and assets
(including real estate, vehicles, movables,
inventory of business owned or controlled by the
individual, financial assets, income from all
sources, shares in companies, etc.).
? All retail outlets and places of business should be
required to install - over a period of 3 years - cash
registers with "fiscal brains". These are cash
registers with an embedded chip. The chips are
built to save a trail (detailed list) of all the
transactions in the place of business. Tax
inspectors can pick the chip at random, download
its contents to the tax computers and use it to issue
tax assessments. The information thus gathered
can also be crossed with and compared to
information from other sources (see: "Databases
and Information Gathering"). This can be done
only after the full implementation of the
recommendations in the section titled "Databases
and Information Gathering". I do not regard it as
an effective measure. While it increases business
costs - it is not likely to prevent cash or otherwise
unreported transactions.
? All taxis should be equipped with taximeters,
which include a printer. This should be a licencing
condition.
? Industrial norms (for instance, the amount of sugar
needed to manufacture a weight unit of chocolate,
or juice) should be revamped. Norms should NOT
be determined according to statements provided by
the factory - but by a panel of experts. Each norm
should be signed by three people, of which at least
one is an expert engineer or another expert in the
relevant field. Thought should be dedicated to the
possibility of employing independent laboratories
to determine norms and supervise them.
? Payments in wholesale markets should be done
through a ZPP counter or branch in the wholesale
market itself. Release of the goods and exiting the
physical location of the wholesale market should
be allowed only against presentation of a ZPP
payment slip.
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