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[boomerang]

i totally agree, the rot has to be acknowledged and stop...i have been saying this all along....

[GreekIslandGirl]

i totally agree, the rot has to be acknowledged and stop...i have been saying this all along....

The rot is what you spread when you spread discriminatory anti-Greek propaganda whilst trying to pass it off as some balanced view. Sheep don't think, clone 1a.

[Lordo]

A country that is incapable of collecting taxes and reverts to identifying which properties have swimming pools in order to calculate their taxes is in the shit which ever you look at it.

A country which has a highest taxable income of 90,000 declared for an individual is going to be in the shit.

No matter what our Elam boys and girl says.

[GreekIslandGirl]

The swimming pool taxes are part of the needed reappraisal since so many old village properties were renovated and things like stables were converted to bedrooms or living quarters. It's similar to what the UK, for example, does every so often when people convert a house into flats etc. There is nothing uniquely Greek about adjusting the taxation due on a property - except that Greece is a place where more people (usually foreigners) decide to build swimming pools (often without the necessary permits - especially from the antiquities departments).

[Lordo]

Other countries consider swimming pools at the local level of taxation not an National level. How does the Tax office accept that nobody has earned more than 90,000 in a year?

Until Greece can collect taxes from the rich there is no hope.

[Anna_gr]

There seem to be a lot of ignorant people about! Who said no one earned more that €90,000?

And what do swimming pools have to do with anything?

[Lordo]

There seem to be a lot of ignorant people about! Who said no one earned more that €90,000?

And what do swimming pools have to do with anything?

90,000 was the highest earning declared in Greece for Tax purposes. The tax office reverted to identifying the properties with swimming pools from the air to charge higher rates of tax.

Ignorant people on this forum? Never.

[GreekIslandGirl]

There seem to be a lot of ignorant people about! Who said no one earned more that €90,000?

And what do swimming pools have to do with anything?

90,000 was the highest earning declared in Greece for Tax purposes. The tax office reverted to identifying the properties with swimming pools from the air to charge higher rates of tax.

Ignorant people on this forum? Never.

You shouldn't believe all the Internet propaganda just because you want to spread it.

The recent property legalization taxes also included garages and other buildings which increased the value of the property. These mostly affected Germans and Brits who have second homes there and have willy nilly renovated - sometimes without the correct permits. They are the ones who are moaning and trying to ridicule Greece over these necessary adjustments, which as I have already said, are carried out everywhere else in the world too.

[boomerang]

i totally agree, the rot has to be acknowledged and stop...i have been saying this all along....

The rot is what you spread when you spread discriminatory anti-Greek propaganda whilst trying to pass it off as some balanced view. Sheep don't think, clone 1a.

well i've been saying as much to your dislike as anna...corruption was/is the root of all evil in greece...you say that's propaganda starting with "it's a german ploy" with absolutely no evidence whats so ever...only if mad cows could ever think...

so by outlying the reasons greece is in the shit is considered by you anti greek propaganda?...i am seriously having great doubts about you...
ipa sou prin 2 meres, akoma lio ena sirnis petres...epellanes kori, doke amanda me ta bullshit...

[Anna_gr]

There seem to be a lot of ignorant people about! Who said no one earned more that €90,000?

And what do swimming pools have to do with anything?

90,000 was the highest earning declared in Greece for Tax purposes. The tax office reverted to identifying the properties with swimming pools from the air to charge higher rates of tax.

Ignorant people on this forum? Never.

I think you are very mistaken. Many individuals and business declared huge profits and many were honest about their earnings.

Not everyone avoided their tax obligations.