Greece

In an attempt to convince foreign taxpayers and Greeks living abroad to move their tax bases to Greece, lawmakers have presented a new bill to Parliament on Tuesday that would offer foreign taxpayers a 50% discount on their income...

According to the latest data made recently available by Greece's Independent Authority for Public Revenue, pensioners are now the largest single group of taxpayers in Greece. In nine out of the thirteen regions of the country, pensioners now constitute the...

Taxpayers' arrears to the state totaled 99.970 billion euros, while the number of debtors was 4,068,857 on January 1, 2018, George Pitsilis, governor of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), said on Friday. Speaking to reporters during a media...

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...

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...

Taxpayers’ arrears to the state grew by 1.278 billion euros in December to total 13.906 billion euros in 2016, official figures showed on Monday. Taxpayers’ arrears (new and old ones) to the state amounted to 95.2 billion euros in...

The Finance Ministry has given individuals and firms until May 31, 2017 to come clean about incomplete tax declarations. There is a new draft law which provides for a lower tax and fine if people with undisclosed income come forward...

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...

The premise for financing the settlement is not to leave it to the taxpayers in Cyprus, but get real money to pay for the upfront cost, the Special Advisor of the UN Secretary General, Espen Barth Eide, said in...

  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...

Taxpayers’ overdue debt to the Greek state grew significantly in September, by 1.469 billion euros, to total 8.392 billion euros so far this year, the Finance ministry said in a report. The report noted that taxpayers’ overdue debt surpassed 80...

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...

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...