Katerina Savvaidou

The European Commission categorically denied former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varroufakis’s claims that Greece’s General Secretary for Public Revenue, Katerina Savvaidou was under the control of the Commission.

The surfacing of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis “Plan B” for the Greek economy has fast become a wound to the side of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) ruling party. Varoufakis own admission that there were plans to “hack” into Greek taxpayers personal tax codes has sent the political world abuzz.

Details of a truly radical “Plan B” reportedly hatched by ex-FinMin Yanis Varoufakis to create a parallel electronic currency connected with the “hacked” personal tax codes of millions of Greek taxpayers was published in the Sunday edition of the Athens daily “Kathimerini”.

Owners of uninsured private vehicles face fines up to 750 euros, with moderate estimates saying that the number of such vehicles in the country ranges between 870,000 and 1.1 million.

By Sotiris Nikas

Top tax official Katerina Savvaidou from the General Secretariat of Public Revenue held a meeting on Tuesday where it was decided to probe the finances of 1,500 affluent people on the list of transfers to overseas accounts. The meeting discussed the General Secretariat of Public Revenue's plans to take action against those who have undeclared money abroad.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

Greek landlords will still have to pay income tax for the rents that their tenants have failed to pay, at a rate ranging from 11 to 33 percent, according to a circular issued on Friday by the general secretary for public revenues, Katerina Savvaidou.

Taxisnet, the electronic platform of the Greek finance ministry, will continue to accept annual employee income certificate data by companies, social insurance funds and state organizations after the March 31 deadline.

17 individuals’ assets will be seized after an order issued by the Financial prosecutor, based on data from the Center of Great Wealth Taxation, arising from finance checks performed on people with large deposits.

The checks concern a total of 49 people and are based on banking finance moves they have performed between 2000-2012.

A law passed last month granting debtors 72 to 100 installments to pay off their outstanding obligations to the state is to be changed to reduce its fiscal impact and meet the demands of the troika, it emerged on Wednesday.