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Τhe balance of travel services in August 2022 showed a surplus of 3,828.3 million euros, up from a surplus of 3,018.6 million euros in August 2021, according to provisional data released by the Bank of Greece on Monday. More specifically, travel receipts in August 2022 rose by 28.1% to 4,042.9 …

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Greece’s Independent Revenues Authority AADE started using a new application to locate fake receipts, giving financial incentives to users: Appodixi went in operation on Wednesday, September 21, and over 700 complaints about fake and falsified were filed already on the first day. Appodixi operates through mobile phones and one can …

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Tourists are the target of a new campaign by Greece’s Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) that encourages tourists to demand a receipt before paying for goods The “Apodixi please” (Receipt, please!) campaign is backed up by a YouTube video and banners in airports as well as a web page. The …

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Taxpayers who pay cash will be able to build their tax-free income if they scan the paper receipts and forward them electronically to the Independent Public Revenues authorities AADE. this was revealed by Deputy Finance Minister Thodoros Skylakakis to ANT1 TV on Monday morning. The plan is being prepared to …

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A local shop-owner beat tax officers conducting audits on the island of Patmos, Dodecanese, on Saturday.  It needed the intervention of two ministers so that local authorities detain the perpetrator. The three tax auditors had arrived on the island of Apocalypse in the context a ‘tax evasion safari’ launched by …

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Greece is banning the use of cash the soft way. As of 1.1. 2017, taxpayers will be granted tax-allowance and tax deduction only when they have made payments via credit or debit cards. The new guidelines refer to employees, pensioners, farmers but also unemployed. Accepted expenditure will be: purchases for …

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That’s a true LOL story Made in Greece! The Culture Ministry has been systematically evading taxes for years or even decades or better say: state institutions have been depriving  the state from tax revenues. The incredible tax evasion was revealed at the museum of the the archaeological site of Knossos …

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From Euro-Shrek to Super Taxman: Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will hire part timers as undercover agents to grab out tax evaders. Tourists, students and housewives – desperate or not –  will work armed with wire devices (camera, etc) to catch shopkeepers and service providers who offer their goods, pocket …

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A new taxation system full of dangerous traps for the honest taxpayers who cannot evade taxes has been prepared by the Greek Finance Ministry. With the new regulations accepted by the coalition government parties, employees and pensioners will be obliged to collect receipts equal to one-fourth of their annual income …

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After the uproar triggered by the announcement of receipts collection, Finance Minister E. Venizelos issued a clarifying statement… triggering an even bigger uproar! For two simple reasons, hmmm… in fact three: 1) the state will electronically survey even citizens’ savings 2) the plan hasn’t been thoroughly worked out 3) more clarifications are needed. …

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I’m sorry (?) to say that but I have reasons to believe Greece is not anymore a ‘state of law’ but a “state of pure absurdity’! The Machivallism unprescendeted, the amateurism exemplary! Those listening to Finance Minister E. Venizelos yesterday, those who managed to understand what he was saying about the …

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This is the tax card that will help the Greek taxpayer to collect receipts for the income declaration but avoid the masses of nasty small pieces of thin paper. Greeks will give this card by any purchase and the data will be directly transferred to the Finance Ministry. The tax …

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