tax evasion

According to a study conducted by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOVE) and the British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, there are obvious injustices in the Greek tax system. The study shows that 8% of employees with annual wages...

The Internal Audit Service of the Finance Ministry, after an investigation of the income declarations of 93 employees of the tax department, revealed several cases of tax evasion. Many officials of the tax department had "forgotten" to declare expensive cars...

Lakis Gavalas’ trial has been postponed for the 27th of October 2014. He was arrested again on Wednesday, for the sixth time, for debts to the State, this time amounting to 712,000 euros. The renowned designer has already been in...

Greek Former Defense Minister, Yiannos Papantoniou and his wife, Stavroula Kourakou, were asked to provide explanations to assist in the investigation of their assets. As reported, Athens Corruption Prosecutor, Eleni Raikou, has called the former minister a suspect for violation...

The new bill of the Finance Ministry predicts imprisonment of tax evaders in the combat against tax evasion and will be submitted to the Greek Parliament in a few days. Concerning the big cases of tax evasion and inflow of...

  A team of prosecutors accompanied by officers from the financial police department raided the headquarters of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO). This action was part of an investigation that is held in order to find evidence connecting Greece’s soccer...

Greek Reporter spoke to a few people who have cheated the system, in order to get an understanding of why some Greeks don't pay taxes. Most of them say, that the tax system is so unfair, they would not...

On September 12 Greek authorities unveiled a new tax crime sheet aimed at streamlining fines imposed by tax agencies - for a more feasible collection of fines - and imposing stricter penalties for small tax-evaders, where tax evasion rates...

Greeks hold deposits of 200 billion euros in Switzerland, while Greece emerges as the “big loser” of tax evasion. The Austrian newspaper Der Standard dedicated an article to tax evasion in Greece, referring to the large deposits of rich Greeks...

Greece's hopes of boosting the economy by cutting the Value Added Tax (VAT) in eateries from 23 to 13 percent for a five-month trial are failing from the get-go as inspectors have found about 50 percent of all businesses...