29/04/16

[Maik]

Debts to the state keep expanding

Citizens’ capacity to pay taxes is diminishing by the year, and the latest data from the General Secretariat of Public Revenues show debts to the state on on the rise: In the first quarter of the year taxpayers’ debts expanded by 3.22 billion euros, taking the sum of all debts to the tax authorities to more than 87 billion euros.

At the end of 2012, expired debts to the state had amounted to 55.1 billion, so in just over three years they have soared by 32 billion euros. This is the same amount as the taxes raised in that period.

Market experts say that expired debts to the state created this year will surpass 13.48 billion, the sum of the new debts created throughout 2015. The new taxes, the upcoming value-added tax hikes, the increased tax deposit for the self-employed and enterprises are likely to suffocate the market, they say, making it even harder, if not impossible, for citizens to pay their dues.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/208291/article/ekathimerini/business/debts-to-the-state-keep-expanding

[Maik]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36170633

[TonyD]

Propoganda?
Turkey desperate to show it's following the rules, so it gets the promised Visas for all bribe.
Then, instead of 5,500 a day arriving by boat, we'll have up to 70m arriving at airports.

[TonyKath]

Think it only applies to the Shengen area...?

Tony

[U4ea]

Schengen only and they can only stay for 3 months, though how they'll enforce that I haven't a clue.

[Aristarches]

The same way the UK does:

Immigration official "Oy, have you  been here more than three months?"

Waiter "Not me, mate and anyway me no speakee da English"

IO "OK, just checking.  I'll have a sheikh kebab and a chicken tindaloo, extra hot."

Waiter, aside, soto voce "Moron" (In a language of your choice)