Taxpayer

About a tenth of Greek taxpayers forked out 60 percent of the total income tax paid last year, according to data released on Thursday by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue.

The measures and countermeasures the government is preparing with the approval of the country's creditors will lead to further tax hikes as of 2019.

Nothing is more frustrating to Greek taxpayers than the conviction that all the money they pay the state ends up in a black hole.

The General Secretariat for Public Revenue has begun identifying properties owned by Greek taxpayers in 84 other countries which cooperate with the Greek authorities in a data exchange system.

Taxpayers will have to declare income from abroad, holdings in foreign companies and property assets and capital in other countries in the online asset register ("Periousiologio") that the General Secretariat for Public Revenue will introduce in 2017, which will also include all taxpayer data stored by the tax authorities.

Seven out of 10 taxpayers who resort to administrative courts win their cases. Finance Ministry data that Kathimerini has seen show that of 604 court verdicts, 440 were in the taxpayers' favor, which raises significant questions as to the way inspections are conducted and the taxes and fines imposed.