According to the General Secretariat of Public Revenue over 2.6 million taxpayers and businesses have outstanding debts towards the tax services, which come to a total of about 62.5 billion euros.

This highlights the greatest problem experienced by households in Greece, which is the inability to respond to the obligations towards the state.

The news also reveals that the exorbitant fines occasionally imposed are unable to curb the escalating problem, since settlements have been reached for only about 2.5% of the outstanding tax debts (about 1.5 billion euros).

More revealing is the fact that of that 1.5 billion euros the State has only managed to collect 304.7 million euros. The taxpayers want to pay their fines, they simply don’t have the ability.