taxation

Former Bank of Greece president Giorgos Provopoulos said in a television interview that Greece had no clear bailout plan from the beginning and that in 2012 there was a "plan B in case of a bank panic." Provopoulos said that...

When a country decides to abandon the right to govern the nation; the right to control its own currency and interest rates; the right to make its own laws; the right to control its own borders, and when that...

In an attempt to calm farmers the government proceeded to announce a new improved proposal for farmer taxation. During their meeting Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, heads of the Ministry of Rural Development, Deputy Minister of Finance, Giorgos Mavraganis...

One hundred and fifty Greeks receiving low pension from the Greek Social Insurance Institute (IKA) remain unpaid. Those are Greeks that live in Cairo, Egypt’s capital. According to the announcement of Cairo’s Greek Community, IKA has halted payments for retirement...

Greek Finance Minister, Yannis Stournaras, and UAE Minister of State for Financial Affairs, Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, signed on June 27 a protocol amending the agreement on the avoidance of double taxation that was signed in Abu Dhabi in...

The Greek state keeps collecting taxes from crisis-hit citizens while wealthy Greek ship-owning families as well the Greek Orthodox Church are exempt from taxation, reports Nikolaj Nielsen for the EU Observer. The Greek Orthodox Church remains the country's largest property owner. ...

25,000 cottages, many of them belonging to famous Greek actors and singers, are currently in search of a willing buyer, according to data recently published by the Hellenic Association of Realtors (HAR). That selling bug has spread through many Greek...

Christine Lagarde’s comments about the Greeks trying to escape their tax payments in her recent Guardian interview put her in deep diplomatic water just half a month away from the June 17 elections in Greece. Individuals and political parties both...

Mayor of Darebin Steven Tsitas and the city council came up with an innovative idea, which may upset fast-food owners of the area. They decided to tax the fat and as a result, the taxes may be up to...