tax evasion

They are born in Greece, live in Greece but that does not stop them from getting Bulgarian IDs and license plates for their cars, to avoid taxes in their country. Neighboring EU country Bulgaria seems to offer the whole...

Analysts from Alpha Bank, in a weekly release of financial developments, have blistered Greece’s tax services for failure to perform properly and said that people who pay taxes are unfairly bearing the brunt of the country's economic crisis. They said...

With Greece being pushed by its international lenders to finally go after tax cheats costing the country some $70 billion – and with most Greeks believing the government has done nothing about it – President Karolos Papoulias has urged...

With Greeks facing another round of austerity measures, and furious that tax evaders costing the country $70 billion have continued to escape sacrifice, the country’s international lenders are again pressing the government to do something about it. A report by...

While working Greeks are lining up to pay a doubled property tax being put into their electric bills, critics are arguing that some businesses and the wealthy are avoiding it. The levy is being called a "haratsi," after a Turkish...

Greek tax inspectors who routinely find tax cheats in Greece said they were amazed at how brazen and widespread it was in the village of Arma, Thebes where they said they found most of the residents driving around in...

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his mother have denied reports in the Greek media that she's behind the name of a civil servant with 550 million euros ($714 million) in deposits in a Swiss bank, with the...

In yet another attempt to pursue possible tax evaders, and in the aftermath of failures to check secret bank accounts of Greeks in other countries, the Finance Ministry is sending out letters to 15,000 people who were found to...

In a bid to slow runaway tax evasion, Greece’s Development Ministry is ready to set forth a regulation that would customers who are refused receipts as bars, restaurants, shops and for service to have their food, drink, goods or...

With his party falling toward oblivion, PASOK Socialist leader is continuing to defend his support of austerity measures but, in an interview with Sunday’s Kathimerini, refused to say whether he would change his mind and allow some of his...