Greece

In a shocking series of events, police arrested a man who barged into a tax office in Kozani, Thessaloniki on Thursday and began to viciously attack employees there with an axe. The attack occurred on Thursday during normal business hours...

A fire broke out early at dawn of Saturday in the building where the 2nd Tax Office (DOY) of Larissa is housed, at the corner of Patroklos and Roosevelt Streets. . According to the Larissa Fire Department, a local called at...

A million Greek taxpayers with debts to the state could see their bank accounts and deposits raided. The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) plan for 2018 will also see more than 200,000 audits of corporations, companies, small businesses, bars, restaurants, professionals...

Greek tax offices have been given instructions for online real-estate auctions which will take place from May 1. A circular which summarizes changes voted upon in parliament last month also issues provisions on how the controversial auctions should be conducted. They...

Greece's tax office has resorted to confiscations, auctions and criminal prosecutions in order to collect from debtors to the State, as outstanding debts are close to 4.75 billion euros in the first five months. Tax authorities carry out an average...

The Greek government previously announced that it was going to create an application where taxpayers could keep track of their financial transactions in order to know when they reach the set amount needed to cover a tax-free threshold. However,...

Greek tax authorities and the finance ministry are not ready yet to implement the program that would register consumer payments with debit and credit cards. According to the finance ministry, as of January 1, 2017 goods and services purchased with...

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...

The Greek Tax Office freezes per day an average of 20 accounts of people who have sent more than 100,000 euros abroad or made undocumented transactions of 300,000 euros or more in Greece. The Control Center of Taxpayers with Great Wealth...

Poul Thomsen's so-called 'Death Team' have started audits at all Greece's major tax offices, investigating the properties of Greek taxpayers. The country's tax collection mechanism is under the control of Thomsen and his team, who are determined to tackle tax evasion...

The General Secretariat of Public Revenue plan for tax compliance includes a simplification of the tax-paying process. According to the Greece 's General Secretary of State Revenue, Charis Theocharis, in the future, taxpayers will not have to pay their taxes...

Athens police late on Sunday night responded bomb threats were called to the Mega Channel television station and the news website,  Zougla.gr, warning a bomb would explode within twenty minutes outside the Korydallos tax office. The police immediately cordoned off the area around the...

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...

Harry Theocharis, General Secretary of Public Revenue and head of tax offices across Greece, inspired by the films "Anger Management" and "Analyze this," organized seminars that will help employees in tax offices deal with the anger and the outbursts...

Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) received a list from Commissioner Horst Reichenbach, including well-known business executives and government organizations which will be examined thoroughly. A special decentralized tax audit service (KEFOMEP) intends to impose massive fines on wealthy taxpayers...