According to data recently published by the General Secretariat of Public Revenues, wealthy Greeks tend not to declare Greece as their country of residence. But of the wealthy Greeks who do declare Greek residency, a shocking percentage come from the city of Kozani in northern Greece.
As reported by bankingnews.gr, in 2013 just 233,087 Greek citizens declared incomes higher than 44,020.54 euros. Figures show that 548,581 taxpayers declared an income of 2,934.70 euros in 2013; 994,365 citizens declared an income of 5,869 euros. This means that approximately 1,542,946 Greek families live on 16 euros per day.
Figures also show that, even in some of Athens’s wealthiest suburbs, many taxpayers live off surprisingly modest incomes. In fact, the 2011 report published by the General Secretariat of Public Revenues showed that a mere 5,000 Greeks declared incomes higher than 100,000 euros.
In 2012, 2,473 residents of Kozani in northern Greece declared incomes higher than 44,020 euros. And yet in 2012 in Ekali, a wealthy suburb in northern Athens, just 778 taxpayers declared incomes exceeding that figure. In 2013, that number dropped to 681 residents. Bizarrely, the richest Greeks – or perhaps the most honest Greeks – live in Kozani.
In 2013, however, Kozani had significantly less rich residents than in 2012. The number of residents earning more than 44,020 euros per year plummeted to 1,565 in twelve months. Meanwhile, according to 2013 income declarations, the number of rich citizens of Filothei, another rich suburb in northern Athens, fell from 1,019 in 2012 to 889 in 2013.
In 2013, income declarations from Neo Psychiko in northern Athens revealed that only 945 residents earned more than 44,020.54 euros in 2013. In 2012, that number was 1,136. In 2013, 1,176 residents of Paleo Psychiko declared incomes higher than 44,020.54 euros – 200 fewer than those who declared such incomes in 2012.
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