taxes

The customs office at Evzones, near Greece’s border with FYROM, was blocked by farmers and from the municipality of Peonia on Saturday, who are protesting about the increase in taxation and changes in their social security fees. Speaking to Athens-Macedonian...

It appears that the Greek government lifting controls this summer on new money entering bank accounts has done very little to actually impact the growth of deposits in banks, the Bank of Greece (BoG) says. According to the latest numbers,...

According to data recently released by Alternative Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis to the Greek Parliament, sifting through the long list of tax dodgers from the so-called Lagarde list is going at an extremely slow rate. Alexiadis says under-staffing and difficulty closing cases...

More and more Greeks have turned to credit cards to help them in paying their income and property taxes, according to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. According to their data, the total amount of taxes put on credit cards in 2016...

Greece has fallen short of its revenue target by 1.8 percent. A deficit in the budget balance worth 1,040 million euros in the first eight months of 2016 and 1,104 million euros for the same period in 2015 bringing...

According to an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report released which summarizes tax policy “Greece was the only country that raised the tax rate on corporations" in 2015. The report reveals that corporate tax rates in Greece were...

VAT revenues increased significantly in August, surpassing monthly budget targets, while in the January-August period revenues surpassed targets by 3.01%. Both the Finance Ministry and the Secretariat-General for Public Revenue expressed satisfaction over the increase of VAT revenue which is attributed largely...

According to reports by Euronews, Greece's Deputy Finance Minister, Trifon Alexiadis told the media outlet that the government is planning to crack down on collecting taxes from property owners who privately sublet rentals to both long-term and short-term visitors via sites...

Greek taxpayers will need to brace themselves over the next few months for a total of 23.3 billion euros to be squeezed out of them in the form of income tax, priority taxes, car registration fees and other duties....

The Finance Minister has extended the deadline for making amendments to annual declaration forms for property owners due to numerous errors on the incoming forms received so far. The reposes to the errors on the part of the government has been...