tax evasion in Greece
Business
Greece Fines Tax Dodgers €142m
Greece’s Financial Crime Unit (SDOE) has issued fines to Greek businesses and professionals for dodgy accounting practises, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
After auditing various businesses across Greece throughout April, SDOE forwarded 507 reports of bogus invoices and non-issued receipts to customs offices and tax authorities, so...
Crime
Tackling Tax Evasion: Bloomberg Follows Greece's Fraud Squad
In a recent story, a Bloomberg correspondent followed Greece's Financial Crime Unit (SDOE) performing random spot checks at several locations across Athens, unraveling step by step the Greek mentality of evading taxes, which “has its roots back in the Ottoman Empire".
The...
Greece
Mandatory Email Service for Greek Taxpayers
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...
Crime
One in Three Greek Physicians Found With Unjustified Incomes
As part of a full-scale operation conducted by the Greek Financial and Economic Crimes Unit (SDOE) targeting money laundering in the health sector, it was revealed that hundreds of physicians all over Greece were involved in tax evasion and...
Economy
Study Shows Tax Cheats Costing Greece $14 Billion Annually
As Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' shaky coalition government seeks to hammer out $14.16 billion in cuts demanded by international lenders - with workers, pensioners and the poor set to take another blow - a study conducted by a...
Greece
Greek Top Tax Investigator Lekkas Agrees with IMF's CEO Lagarde on Tax Evasion
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde was right to urge Greeks to pay their taxes since that could help solve Athens' current difficulties, the country's top tax investigator stated today, Friday June 8th, in regard to the recent IMF...