TaxPayers' Alliance

The government will soon introduce practices to streamline bureaucratic processes for taxpayers, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has announced.

Şimşek said the Revenue Administration is working on a series of draft communiqués that will provide convenience to taxpayers, and the drafts will soon be made public for input and opinions.

Serbian taxpayers are still in the dark about how millions of euros of public funds were spent in the fight against COVID-19.

In mid-October an official from a major consultancy firm appeared at a tax office holding a sizable dossier. It contained the details of 200 foreign taxpayers with large properties seeking to become Greek taxpayers and take advantage of the special "non dom" status. Most of them were people of Greek origin who had been living abroad for years, or second-generation Greeks.

The bad management and waste in state companies continues unabated. One wonders what the state assets fund, the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations, is doing about it.

Its executives are handsomely, if not excessively, renumerated and have clear responsibilities. They've had more than enough preparation time.

Almost 600,000 Greeks were added to the long list of state debtors over the summer, according to a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office, with experts viewing the development as a sign of deterioration for the country's private economy.