Time to go after the rich?
Euclid Tsakalotos, the Greek finance Minister in an interview with the Guardian in December talked about the task of pursuing the elite for unpaid taxes. […]
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Yanis Varoufakis – Greece’s two currencies
Project Syndicate — Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small amounts of cash weekly and facing restrictions […]
Greece on a collision course with creditors after vowing not to slash pensions
The Telegraph — Greece has promised not to implement controversial cuts to pensions, putting the debtor nation on a collision course with international lenders just […]
Italy and Greece surprise as the Eurozone reports strong manufacturing data
The Eurozone’s manufacturing sector ended 2015 on a positive note as it registered an overall score of 53.2 in the Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index in […]
Moscovici: “Combat tax evasion to reduce taxes on income”
The European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici urged Greek authorities to combat tax evasion, in order to reduce taxes […]
Greek central banker urges government on bailout reforms
Bloomberg — Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras gave a stark warning about the risk of Greece failing to reach an agreement with its creditors […]
Greece to remain under close EU supervision in 2016
Greece will feature heavily on the Eurogroup agenda in the first six months of 2016 as creditors want to supervise closely the progress of the […]
Euro zone bailout fund approves €1 billion payout for Greece – at the cost of a social justice bill
The euro zone bailout fund has approved the payment of a €1 billion aid tranche for Greece following Athens’ completion of a second set of […]
Another delay for billion euro bailout installment
Greek government officials and representatives of the country’s creditors were Friday seeking to resolve yet another last-minute disagreement in order to release the much delayed […]
Ministry starts confiscating money from debtor accounts
eKathimerini — The Finance Ministry is starting to recoup the money owed to the tax authorities by confiscating it directly from the accounts of those […]
The Great Greek Bank Robbery
Y Varoufakis/Project.Syndicate — Since 2008, bank bailouts have entailed a significant transfer of private losses to taxpayers in Europe and the United States. The latest […]
Greek prosecutors investigating tax evaders raid UBS office
AFP — Greek prosecutors said Tuesday they were probing some 200 cases of suspected tax fraud and money laundering after raiding an Athens office of […]
Why the Greeks struggle to pay tax
Jan Grieveson’s photo in Facebook, reproduced in a number of Greek media, including www.logiosermis.net became one of the most popular internet topics of the day […]
ADMIE to remain under state control, creditors have agreed
eKathimerini — Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) will cease to be independent as the government and its creditors agreed on Thursday and Friday that […]
Tsipras: IMF’s unrealistic demands not constructive
REUTERS – The International Monetary Fund is not playing a constructive role in Greece’s bailout and should make up its mind whether it wants to […]