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Tax Office Thoroughly Examines 1,600 Wealthy People

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...

Greek Priests Embezzle Nearly One Million Euros

Two priests were arrested in Trikala and then convicted by Larissa’s Court of Assize to 18 years and 6 years imprisonment on charges of embezzling a total of 930,000 Euros that were destined for the payroll of clergymen in...

Seizure of Wages and Pensions Will be Possible

As of next month, the impossible will become possible. The Ministry of Finance with a simple order to the banks through the General Secretariat of Information Systems can seize wages and pensions. The newspaper Imerisia stated the decree is expected...

Police Arrest the Head of a Tax Department in Athens

Yesterday, the officers of Internal Affairs  arrested a 61-year-old woman, the head of a tax office department in Athens. She is accused of accepting bribes and breach of duty. She was caught accepting a bribe of 2,300 euros in order...

Greece Will Tax Foreigners 45%

Greek is set to assess a 45 percent tax on immigrants and foreign residents even if they have declared and paid taxes in their own countries, at the same time the government has failed to go after tax cheats...

Greece Handcuffs 40 Tax Debtors Daily

The Troika has managed to get all Greeks in a stranglehold to collect as much as possible from the ever-increasing household and business debts to the state. The method is simple: anyone who does not pay or settle his debts...

70-Year-Old Man Opens Fire in Tax Office of Agia Paraskevi

The citizens that were “lucky” enough to visit the tax office of Agia Paraskevi at a suburb of Athens on Monday morning were confronted with a chaotic incident, when an angry senior entered the premises and started shooting around...

Inactivity in Tax Offices

Inactivity is observed in most of the tax offices in Greece. In the 286 tax offices, 360,370 cases were left pending by the end of the first half of the year. In the 34 biggest tax offices, there...