Food records found to be 'flawed'

Forty percent of restaurants, pubs and kiosks in central Haifa were found to be keeping defective financial records.

By MIRIAM BULWAR DAVID-HAY (TRANSLATED)
Some 40 percent of restaurants, pubs and kiosks in central Haifa were found to be keeping defective financial records after the Taxation Authority sent its officials on an undercover spending spree at the city's food outlets recently, reports www.local.co.il. The authority swooped on 60 businesses in central Haifa and seized their books several days after the disguised officials made their purchases, and found that 20% failed to report revenues while a further 20% had "flaws" in managing their books. According to the report, the Taxation Authority found that while a number of businesses regularly failed to record purchases, one kiosk was found not to have produced cash register records from the day it opened. Most dramatically, one pub was found to have failed to record some NIS 80,000 in income, and an official investigation has begun into its management.