agroot wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 11:43 am
I was rather surprised they granted a new tax card before seeing any evidence
A "tax card" is an estimate of tax you should pay in the current year based on income/expenses. You don't need to give any evidence to get a revised tax card. If the tax card has the wrong amount you will just pay more/less tax when the exact tax amount is worked out the following year.
If you plan to stop working in June then you could ask for a new tax card to reduce your tax earlier in the year - but there is no need to give proof you will actually stop work in june.
I think the only chance of fraud with tax cards is that you plan to leave the country, so get a tax card with low rate and underpay your tax and by the time they send you the tax bill for the tax you should have paid you have already left the country and will never set foot in the country again.
what you put in the "tax return" is a different matter though. It's a statement of your expenses and income (a lot of it automatically collected from employers and banks).
As with insurance a lot of the tax authority's work is based on algorithms. They know the profile of the average person and what they might claim. If you claim for something unusual then they will actually look at the figures and perhaps ask for some paperwork but otherwise no person looks at your claim or asks for receipts. It's cheaper to do it this way than ask everyone for paperwork and do manual checking. Some people will get away with invalid claims but that loss is accepted for the benefit of less work administering the system.