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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
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.
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I think you hit the nail on the head, Greece needs a culture change. Read this article a few days ago on how openly people "cheat the system" and it really points to how deep the culture is set
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In a notorious scheme that may provide guidance to eurocrats trying to figure out whether this country deserves another big bailout this Sunday, as many as 700 people of the island’s 35,000 residents falsely claimed that they were blind. They were rewarded with more than 350 euros ($477) a month in compensation.
A leading local politician and an ophthalmologist were said to be the ringleaders, although in a lovely twist the medical documents that some of the “blind” provided to the authorities to get their money had been signed by a urologist
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“I know from a good friend of mine who grew up in Canada before returning to Greece that your country was built on the rules of Her Majesty. Every country has its own mentality and it has never been the same as that here. What we have is the mentality that rules are made to be broken.”
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As Delianis bluntly put it, “In Greece the fish stinks from the head.”
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http://news.nationalpost.com/news/wo...nd-scam-822595