Tag Archives: tax office

Property owners who operate three or more Airbnb-type properties will be called to have closer contacts with Greece’s tax office, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday. At the same time the PM announced also an increase in the accommodation fee in order to cover up costs for damages caused …

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The Greek Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) published lists with the names of individuals and legal entities with outstanding debts over 150,000 euros to the state and/or the social insurance fund (e-EFKA). Τhe lists, whose posting was announced this past week, include 10,168 individuals and 16,839 legal entities whose …

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Tax officers across Greece held a work stoppage on Friday in protest of an axe attack against their colleagues in Kozani, northern Greece, a day earlier. Short after Thursday noon, a citizen entered the tax office of the city, took an axe out of a bag and started attacking the …

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Greek banks will be assigned with the role of the big brother and will monitor when a safe deposit box is visited by its owner, respectively the tax payer. The banks will record every move by the box owners and report it to the tax office if and when necessary, …

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More than eleven thousand properties have come under hammer since the electronic platform for e-auctions went in operation in February 2018. A total of 11,159 debtors’ properties have were auctioned, another 3,776 are expected to be auctions until the end of the year. The list includes 601 houses, 12 hotel …

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Greek tax offices have seized more than than 1.72 million bank accounts in 2017, that is 12 percent more than 2016, the Independent Public Revenues Authority AADE said  in a statement on Monday. The average must have been 700 seizures per working day…. in a country with a population of …

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All properties and assets auctions for outstanding debts to the state will go exclusively online as of 1. May 2018, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos told the Parliament on Friday when he introduced a relevant amendment to the omnibus bill. The amendment was tabled by the finance and the justice ministries …

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One tax officer was transferred to Chania hospital after a taxpayer freaked out in the local tax office and started to smash office equipment. One of the equipment pieces  that flew in the air injured the tax officer in the eye. The incident occurred Thursday noon, when a woman entered …

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Health Minister Andreas Xanthos announced a legislation in order to facilitate the write off of uninsured patients’ debts to public hospitals and therefore to the tax office. Speaking to Sto Kokkino FM, Xanthos said that there have been confirmed debts amounting 28,000,000 euros for treatment of uninsured patients until 2015. …

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Giannis Dimantis has been living in an incredible bureaucratic adventure. For whole 14 years, he has been trying to prove that he is not dead. In vain. Greek bureaucracy is holding him firm in its hands. Diamantis’ adventure began 14 years ago when he went the municipality of Egaleo where …

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Thousands of Greeks have opened or registered their companies in Bulgaria,  Cyprus, Malta or in other neighboring countries with low tax rates in recent years in order to escape the over taxation in Greece. Now the  General Secretariat of Public Revenues targets exactly these companies and threaten the owners with …

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Greece’s Finance Ministry is determined to collect what belongs to the state and as repayment settlements and other forms of arrangements have apparently failed in pushing debtors to put their hands in their pockets, the ministry will call in the internet cavalry: it will name & shame on the web …

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Greek General Secretariat of Public Revenues calls on debtors to go settle their debts or they will see their money disappear from their bank accounts. The mercy period for “confiscations” that was imposed due to capital controls is over and the GSPR officials will now just grab money from deposit …

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Greece will write off debts up to 20,000 euro to tax office, insurance funds but also consumer loans and credit cards to the banks. The measure targets the debt relief of allegedly some 35,000 people and the criteria are very strict: absolute poverty, not possession of property, no income at …

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Do you have outstanding debts to Greek state? The tax office will send the debt notice to the hospital bed your’ laying, to the prison cell you’re sentenced … In case you’re moved out of your last registered address, the tax debt notice will be handed to the …major of …

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After a planning that lasted several months,, Greek Finance Ministry set the guidelines for debtors to the the tax and customs offices. “Outstanding debts can be paid back in 72 or 100 installments,” mainstream media herald adding that “this is a big gift by the General Secretary of Revenues” to …

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You know, you live in Greece of strict austerity and surreal tax collection, when you can’t get a tax clearance even if your debt is just 0.37 euro. A pensioner in Veroia (Northern Greece) needed two days in the local tax office to meet his debt obligation and get the …

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A desperate jobless father entered the tax office in Rhodes holding in his arms his 1.5-year-old baby. “Take it,” he told the stunned tax officers “I cannot feed it anymore.” A day earlier, the divorced father had found out that the tax office had confiscated 300 euro from his bank …

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An Athens court confirmed Greek government’s tax claims from the giant German constructor Hochtief. According to the court, the Greek government has every right to claim approximately €600million from the company that runs Athens airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”. The company has not paid any Value Added Tax since 2001, that is …

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Everyone who has worked in Greece as self-employed or freelancer has crawled through the dark corridors of OAEE and has experienced the nightmare alive in the maze-like construction, a mixture of Minotaur labyrinth and Monopoly. Especially the small and medium-size entrepreneurs found themselves often in the position to be not …

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