tax evasion

With tax inspectors and investigators from the Greek financial crimes squad SDOE stepping up checks of businesses that don't issue receipts or pay taxes, a crowd of some 200 people at a religious celebration in the village of Archanes...

A nightclub in Kallithea area of Athens, Chalkidiki, where the popular Greek singer Panos Kiamos was performing, was ordered shut for 48 hours after inspectors from Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in Theassaloniki found a number of tax evasion...

While the rest of the country is plagued by crisis, with unemployment rate at 27 percent, the island of Mykonos is rolling in the dough with an avalanche of tourists spending money like there's no tomorrow. According to the Guardian,...

In the effort to combat tax evasion, the Ministry of Finance is preparing a new draft for a bill that will enforce the role of tax services, by giving them greater power. The bill draft will soon be finalized to...

Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, in a preliminary finding, has ruled unconstitutional a proposal by the country's financial crimes squad, SDOE, to freeze bank accounts, stock holdings and properties of suspects linked to large scale cases...

The European Union and International Monetary Fund, who, along with the European Central Bank, make up Greece's Troika of lenders of last resort, have issued a report damning the country's tax collection system as broken. To indicate the size of...

As it continues to administer pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on workers, pensioners and the poor in a desperate bid to keep cutting expenses, the Greek government is way behind a schedule to meet its targets for...

While the Greek government has vowed – yet again – to crack down on tax cheats costing the country more than $70 billion, tax evasion is rising, especially among professionals who are keeping taxes they collect from customers and...

Despite big tax hikes as part of austerity measures demanded by international lenders, tax revenues fell precipitously in January, with the Greek Finance Ministry reporting a 16 percent decrease from a year earlier, and a loss of 775 million...

Just as Greece has promised to go after tax cheats, fines imposed on a once-popular singer found to have evaded 5.5 million euros ($7.5 million) in taxes have been annulled by a Greek court, setting up another round of...