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Public Revenue Chief Orders Probe Into Epic Canteen Owner's Dialogue With Tax Officials

Two tax officers, disguised as tourists, met with a Greek canteen owner in Trikala and asked to check his books. His response resembles nothing of the usual reception that tax officials have received in the past that have been a...

Former Bank Employee Reveals More Names of Greek Tax Evaders

Former HSBC Bank employee Hervé Falciani gave a USB stick with eight names of alleged tax evaders to the four Greek prosecutors who took his testimony at the Greek Embassy in Paris. According to information from an anonymous source at the...

Greek Govt Would Need 30 Years to Audit All Suspected Tax Evaders

The Greek authorities' process of auditing suspected tax evaders is very slow, while the number of potential tax evaders is reaching 1.38 million. According to a report in Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," financial prosecutor Panayiotis Athanasiou has written a 25-page report...

Lagarde List Case Reopens for Ex Greek Minister and Relatives

The Lagarde list case reopens after Easter and the former Greek Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou along with his relatives Eleni Papakonstantinou, Andreas Rossonis and Simeon Sikiaridis will be led in front of the Supreme Court special Magistrate Iosif Tsalaganidis. The...

Greeks Say Tax Cheat Crackdown Failing

With more austerity measures coming and aimed at workers, pensioners and the poor, more Greeks are getting fed up with the government's failure to corral tax cheats. More than two-thirds of Greeks say their government is failing to fight...

Swiss Politician Wants to Unveil Greek Tax Cheats

Swiss politicians will vote on Sept. 23 on a new tax law that could end the use of their country's banks as a tax haven for rich Greeks trying to avoid paying taxes while Greece country is undergoing a...

These Greek Tax Evaders Singing The Blues

While the average Greek family is struggling to deal with reduced salaries and higher taxes, there are many famous Greek singers who claim they have earned less in the past few years than people without a job. Greece's crushing...

Finance Official Quits After Fines on Tax Evaders Waived

Chief Appeals Court Prosecutor Spyros Mouzakitis has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the recent resignation of Diomidis Spinellis, the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Finance Ministry, who was said to have quit because fines imposed...

Names of Major Tax Evaders to Be Published

With efforts to turn around the uneven economic situation in Greece continuing with the gathering of taxes, the country's Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, is pursuing his struggle against tax evaders. Venizelos announced in Parliament that three lists carrying the names...