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ATHENS - The unstoppable phenomenon of tax evasion in Greece - sometimes called a national sport - is even worse than thought, auditors from the state’s Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR) uncovering another 24.5 million euros ($29.21 million.)
That was from 2014-19, the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA said, in only 36 cases of cheats including medical practices and computer services to hair salons, sports clubs and advertising agencies.
A moving company in Thrace in northeastern Greece hid 2.8 million euros (3.34 million) worth of transactions from the authorities in 2019 alone and a clothing firm in central Macedonia dodged taxes on nearly 4.5 million euros ($5.37 million) from 2015-2017, the report said.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Before COVID-19, visits to Greece’s paper-strewn labour offices were a ordeal of queues and case files, often for basic matters that in less than a year have moved online as the pandemic upended old administrative routines.
An employee works at a Greek Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED) office in Kalamaki suburb near Athens, Greece, February 15, 2021. Picture taken February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
“Essentially overnight, two thirds of the visits were no longer necessary,” said Spiros Protopsaltis, head of OAED, the Organization of Employment and Unemployment Insurance.
Crammed with thousands of folders and blue OAED registration cards spilling out onto desks and floor space, the corridors of the building where he spoke still offer a daunting vision of the challenge to overhauling public services in Greece.
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Greece tax bureau finally unveils e-platform for property transactions
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Greece is going through a lockdown due to the rising numbers of infected and diseased by the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus infection, Athens, February 28, 2021 / Kαθολικό lockdown στην χώρα, λόγω της αύξησης των κρουσμάτων του COVID-19, Αθήνα, 28 Φεβρουαρίου, 2021
Greece s tax bureau, the now renamed and autonomous Independent Authority for Public Revenues (AADE), this week unveiled an online service that would have been unheard of in the country only several years ago, namely, remotely registering and completing property transactions.
The online platform, called myProperty, allows a notary public - which in Greece is a legal school graduate that retains a registrar of contracts - to send a property sale contract to both a buyer and a seller s tax account inbox (myTaxisne