tax evasion
Crime
Greek Police Crack Down Credit Card Scam
Hellenic Police have arrested 24 people over a scam involving wireless credit card terminals registered abroad, used to dodge capital controls and transfer money abroad.
A company based in Luxembourg supplied Greek businesses with special wireless point-of-sale (POS) terminals that...
Economy
Authorities Urge Greeks to Aid In the Capture of Tax Evaders
Authorities in Greece have doubled their efforts to catch tax evaders over the last year. The Greek Finance Ministry’s General Secretariat for Public Revenue has issued an official statement asking citizens to help combat tax evasion by exercising their...
Economy
Greek Professionals Subject to Declare All Assets to Tax Office
Hundreds of thousands of Greek professionals, doctors, lawmakers, civil servants, journalists, judges and others are subject to declare all their assets as of October 1, according to a new bill.
The people who will be asked to declare all assets...
Crime
Greek Tax Authorities Raid Home of Former UBS Local Bank Boss
Greek authorities have raided the home of a former local boss of UBS investment bank as part of an extensive investigation into suspected tax evasion.
Hellenic Police raided the home of Christos Sclavounis in Athens and took away computers, documents and...
Economy
Popular Greek Singer Performs for the Rich on Mykonos
Singer Antonis Remos is probably the biggest name in Greek show business. On July 28 he will perform at an exclusive club/restaurant on Mykonos with attendance prices starting at 500 euros.
What started as minor controversy is the timing of...
Economy
New Greek Bill Takes Burden Off Tax Evaders
A draft tax bill clause that was submitted to Greek Parliament on Wednesday extends an invitation to tax evaders to return to the taxpaying system on beneficial terms. The new legislation had been chartered by the government in August...
Crime
Chinese Woman on the Island of Rhodes Jumps into the Sea to Avoid Tax Fees
On Friday as a Chinese native was making her rounds on the beaches of Rhodes offering massages for illegal tax-free pay, tax agency members showed up at Tsambika beach.
As soon as the woman spotted them she reportedly jumped into...
Economy
Greek State to Tax Voluntarily Disclosed Hidden Income Higher than 50%
The Greek economic team is close to a plan that would tax voluntarily disclosed hidden income more than 50%, without the accord of creditors so far.
According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, in Thursday's cabinet meeting on economic policy the...
Crime
Greek Officials go to Germany to Train for Battling Tax Evasion, Corruption, Contraband
A mission of 25 top officials from the Ministry of Finance, the General Secretariat Against Corruption and the Special Secretariat for Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) are leaving for Germany on July 10 for special training and exchange of...
Economy
Greek State Aims to Raise €5 Billion from Confiscations and Auctions
The Greek government is to proceed with confiscations of bank accounts and real estate for about 55% of debtors to the state aiming to raise 5 billion euros.
The ministries of finance and labor and their respective collecting agencies turn...