If the anecdotal reports I have heard about wide scale, rampant, almost hilarious levels of tax evasion are accurate why don't they beef up their tax enforcement departments. Reign in delinquent tax payers and crony corps instead of raising taxes on everyone and further strangling their economy. It's clear Greece needs a culture change, it would have been nice to see a deal that enforces some level of that change such as actually forcing people to pay tax, but also with some concessions that they could use to try and restart their economy like lowering corporate tax to attract multinationals.
It will be interesting to see what happens, I booked flights to Greece for an early September trip and I'm not sure if I'll go. I don't mind the 60 euro a day rule if thats still going on then but I don't want to be caught in any riots or stuck on a ferry that has no fuel.
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