Tax Authorities

Information on deposits and financial assets that Greek taxpayers keep abroad started coming to the hands of tax authorities as part of an exchange of information between EU states. According to Kathimerini newspaper, the first batch of data concerning assets...

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Thursday ordered the reopening of the case file of Artemis Sorras after recent incidents caused by his followers. The reappearance of Artemis Sorras and his followers in Greek public life and his new claims...

Greek tax authorities and the finance ministry are not ready yet to implement the program that would register consumer payments with debit and credit cards. According to the finance ministry, as of January 1, 2017 goods and services purchased with...

Outstanding debts to the state keep growing by the month as Greek taxpayers are unable to meet their obligations, according to finance ministry figures. In October, taxpayers failed to pay 1 billion euros in taxes, while the total of the...

Authorities in Greece have doubled their efforts to catch tax evaders over the last year. The Greek Finance Ministry’s General Secretariat for Public Revenue has issued an official statement asking citizens to help combat tax evasion by exercising their...

Greek authorities have raided the home of a former local boss of UBS investment bank as part of an extensive investigation into suspected tax evasion. Hellenic Police raided the home of Christos Sclavounis in Athens and took away computers, documents and...

In an effort to crack down on tax evasion during the high tourist season, Greek tax officials carried out 568 checks in Piraeus, the Cyclades islands and Crete, and discovered 210 violations. The violations were found in the July 17 to...

Thousands of Greeks who have migrated abroad have been called to submit documents to local tax authorities in order to prove that they are living abroad permanently and avoid taxation as Greek citizens. The General Secretariat of Public Revenue issued a...

Greek taxpayers will be required to submit a valid email address to the Greek tax authorities by this May, when the Greek Ministry of Finance will launch a new e-service for citizens. The Ministry will use the new service to...

The Greek Ministry of Finance has finally come to a decision about citizens who hide their income sources from tax authorities. It was announced on Thursday, that the new measures approved by the Ministry includes stricter and more expansive...