Subsidy for Businesses Providing Accounting and Tax Services

The programme

The Action concerns the support of Self-employed Accountants - Tax Advisors, as well as Legal Entities providing accounting and tax services, in order to respond directly to their digital modernization needs, due to the expanded and continuous need to use digital applications for the provision of their services.

The Action aims to support accounting and tax service providers (natural and legal persons), in order to adapt their operation to the upgrading/acquiring the necessary digital infrastructure, to continue to provide uninterrupted services and support the business community, public administration and citizens to respond to the new conditions created by the pandemic (COVID 19).

Who it concerns

Small and medium-sized enterprises which are entered in the relevant registers kept at the Economic Chamber of Greece , as follows:

• Self-employed accountants - tax advisers holding a professional accountant - tax adviser identity card by class and
• Legal entities providing accounting and tax services

The beneficiaries of the Action should, among other things, meet the following conditions:

• submit one Funding Application per Taxpayer Identification Number,
• operate legally in the country and have registered with the competent tax office by 28/02/2022,
• have until 28/02/2022 as an active activity code one of the eligible codes (code 69.20 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities - provision of tax consultancy services, as well as all the underlying codes of this code) in at least one establishment of the company (head office and/or branch),
• to keep simple or double-entry books in accordance with Law 4308/2014. 

It is noted that the examination of the status of the Beneficiaries will be carried out on the basis of data registered in relevant Registers kept by the Economic Chamber of Greece and valid until 28th February 2022.

They are not eligible to submit a funding application proposal:

• public undertakings, public bodies or public organisations and/or their subsidiaries, as well as companies in whose capital or voting rights the local authorities and all the above public bodies participate, directly or indirectly, with more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the capital or voting rights
• enterprises which are part of an already organised uniform distribution network for goods or services and which, under relevant contracts, exploit licenses of intellectual property rights, usually involving trademarks or distinctive titles and know-how for the use and distribution of goods or services (e.g. franchising, shop-in-shop, agency network).

Program budget

The indicative budget (Public Expenditure) of the Action amounts to the total amount of 30 million. euros για το σύνολο των περιφερειών της χώρας.

The Action is co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) of the European Union and national resources.

This amount may be increased to cover all positively assessed applications for funding.

Amount of subsidy

Each beneficiary (discrete VAT number) will be awarded a maximum total grant for the upgrade of the digital infrastructure of its business as follows:

• Grant up to 2.000 euros, if 0 =< revenue for 2020 =< 20.000 euros
• Grant up to 1.500 euro, if revenue for 2020 > 20.000 euro 

The payment of the grant will be made available under Regulation (EU) 1407/18.12.2013 of the European Commission, de minimis aid (De Minimis)

The revenue is derived from the form E3 Tax Year 2020 submitted in 2021, from table D1/Sales of Goods and Services, code 500 "Total Revenue from Sales of Goods and Services".

Οι δυνητικοί ωφελούμενοι, οι οποίοι έκαναν έναρξη εντός του 2021 και έως τις 28.02.2022, δύναται να αιτηθούν και να λάβουν ως ανώτερο όριο επιχορήγησης ποσό 1.500 ευρώ.

An amended E3 declaration submitted after the publication of this Call will not be accepted for the calculation of the grant.

Expenses subsidized

With the aim of digital modernisation of the potential beneficiaries, the following procurement costs are exclusively subsidised:

• Communication Information Technology Equipment
• Software necessary for the digital modernization of the business

Please note that  ICT equipment includes: Desktop PCs and peripherals, laptops, servers, multifunctional computers and other IT equipment.

Eligible expenditure shall also include purchase of software in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS) if it is necessary for the operation of the business and its digital upgrade. In the case of acquisition in the form of Software as a Service (SAAS), eligible is the cost for one year.

The following are eligible acquisition costs of fixed assets for which the cost of acquiring each individual item of equipment is not more than EUR 1,500 or another limit which, according to the legislation in force, allows the depreciation of the asset within the year of its acquisition and up to the limits mentioned above under certain conditions.

For example the following costs are not eligible: mobile phones, tablets, mobile phone connections or other similar connections, subscriptions to magazines or libraries (printed or electronic) of any kind, as well as recoverable value added tax (VAT).

Important dates

• Deadline for submission of proposals: Wednesday 9/3/2022 at 12:00
• Closing date: Monday 18/4/2022 at 15:00
• Ημερομηνία έναρξης επιλεξιμότητας δαπανών: 1/1/2021
• Deadline for the completion of the projects: Six (6) months from the date of adoption of the Inclusion Decision and in any case not later than 31/12/2023.

Necessary supporting documents for submission

03/03/2022
Application documents

Useful files

03/03/2022
Call for Action
03/03/2022
Application documents