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Greece Continues to Have a Serious Tax Evasion Problem

Greek government authorities assigned with the responsibility to combat black money have identified over 3,500 cases of tax evasion which amount to over 5 billion euros. The local tax authorities have been informed of these cases since 2014, but it...

Current Greek Government Seems Determined to Go After Tax Evaders, Borjans Says

Norbert Walter-Borjans, Finance Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, has revealed that he actually offered his assistance in tax-related matters to the government of Antonis Samaras in 2012, just like Syriza MPs claimed recently, but he was turned...

Greek Government to Freeze Assets of Borjan's List Depositors

Greece's financial prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the freezing of all assets and property belonging to 24 individuals in the so-called 'Borjans list' - a list of tax payers with large deposits at UBS given to Greek authorities by the...

Prison Threat for Undeclared Assets

Soon, a bill will be presented to the Greek parliament allowing those with undeclared assets either in Greece or abroad to make “good-faith” arrangements to pay the tax. At the same time, the proposed legislation will include much tougher...

Tsipras: 'This is the First time Greece Will Utilize Information on Tax Evasion'

The Greek government will use the bank data provided by Germany to tackle tax evasion, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said after a meeting with the Finance Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Norbert Walter-Borjans. Greece recently received a list of...

A Priest on the List of Those with Unreported Swiss Bank Accounts

The rich in Greece come in all forms and shapes as wealthy people can be found even among the least expected professions, thanks to practices of corruption and outright fraud. So, little surprise that the name of a priest was...

'Lagarde List' Scandal Takes a New Twist

Years after the tax fraud scandal with the Swiss bank accounts known as the "Lagarde list" ignited public indignation in poverty-stricken and financially bankrupt Greece, the matter has taken a new twist as the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia...

Popular Greek Singer Allegedly Performs in Greece, Gets Paid in Bulgaria

Vassilis Papakonstantinou, a famous Greek singer that has been performing since the 1970's, has come under criticism in the past day after news broke out that he received payment for performing in Greece through Bulgaria, allegedly for taxation reasons. Papakonstantinou...

Greek Prosecutor Gets 500,000 Bank Account Details from Lagarde List

A file with about 500,000 bank account records of all those persons, included in the so-called "Lagarde list" was delivered on Tuesday evening by the secretary-general of the Greek cabinet, Mihalis Kalogirou to Chief Prosecutor Elias Zagoraios. The record, to...

Greek PM Tsipras to Cabinet: "Delays Can't Be Excused"

Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras asked his cabinet to accelerate government work and underlined 11 necessary actions that should be legislated immediately. Tsipras talked to his cabinet on Wednesday in the last meeting for 2015 stressing that "delay's can't...