Greece

Greek taxpayers failed to pay 2 billion euros in income tax that was due in July alone, according to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). July was the month when the first installment of income tax was due. The...

One in four Greek taxpayers were unable to pay the first installment of their income tax, mainly as a result of the dramatic drop in their income as a consequence of over-taxation. Data from the Greek Ministry of Finance...

  Out of sheer desperation for cash, but also as a display of its determination to go after tax debtors, the Greek Finance Ministry is preparing to levy bank accounts, wages and pensions, even for those who owe small amounts...

Greeks owe their own state 82.3 billion euros according to data provided General Secretariat of Public Revenue, Greek media report. According to the new figures provided by the Greek Finance Ministry, overdue payments to the Greek state increased by 832 million euros...

Taxpayer overdue debt to the Greek State grew by another 1 billion euros in May for a total of 5.234 billion so far this year, official figures showed. A report by the General Secretariat of Public Revenue said that total...

In January more than 2.5 million Greek taxpayers couldn’t afford to pay their taxes, adding nearly 1 billion euros to the ever-rising arrears. The General Secretariat of Public Revenues reported that 962 million euros of overdue debt obligations to the State...

  There are 2,653,032 Greek taxpayers who are drowning in tax debts as they cannot afford to pay the increase in taxes. As a result, the amount of the overdue debt obligations from January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014...

Greek taxpayers will be required to submit a valid email address to the Greek tax authorities by this May, when the Greek Ministry of Finance will launch a new e-service for citizens. The Ministry will use the new service to...

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...

Ten million euros will be distributed on Christmas Eve to 10,000 lucky taxpayers through a lottery the finance ministry is basing on purchases or payments made by taxpayers electronically or through cards. The lottery covers receipts from January to November...

Outgoing Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem acknowledged on Thursday that Greece’s creditors put too much emphasis on saving the banks at the expense of ordinary taxpayers. In an exchange of views on Greece in the European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs...

Former Greek Minister Yanis Varoufakis gave one more media interview, this time to German news magazine Focus, in which he assessed his six-month tenure at the helm of Greece's Finance Ministry. "Even if God and the angels descended on earth to take over...

German taxpayers are not paying for Greek pensions and the creditors' insistence on pension cuts is inexplicable, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told a German newspaper. "The insistence on exchange of arguments during negotiations is legitimate as long as there...

Last week the Greek Finance Ministry’s General Secretariat of Information Systems launched a seminar entitled “The sea elephant and scrappy information,” geared toward all people employed in Greek tax offices who are being educated on how to deal with...

ATHENS – After stiffing private investors for 74 percent losses earlier this year on their holdings in Greek bonds, Greece may also give a so-called “haircut” of 30 percent losses to the European Central Bank (ECB) and the 16...