Strike against tax evasion

The planning of National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis includes a new framework for the taxation of the self-employed. The new finance minister has challenged himself to make his own mark in the fight against tax evasion, as he did in his previous posts tackling pensions, Public Power Corporation and Olympic Airways.

The ministry's relevant bill, with the aim of "satisfying the public's sense of justice," as he said in an interview with Kathimerini, will be tabled in Parliament next year. It will be preceded, immediately after this month's Thessaloniki International Fair, by the passing of regulations for the wider use of digital tools in the fight against tax evasion, but also for limiting the use of cash in transactions.

"The flagship of our effort will be the connection of card terminals (POS) with the cash registers and the tax authorities to make...