Taxpayers must add each receipt or wait till year-end for discount

Unless they've been keeping a record of their electronic transactions that count toward this year's tax discount, most Greeks won't know if they'll have to pay the taxman more or get a rebate until they are notified. The government had announced that it would create an application that would allow taxpayers to keep track of their transactions and see how far they had to go before they covered their tax-free threshold, but this plan appears to have been abandoned.

It seems the reason is not due to any technical problems but rather because the focus has shifted to the implementation of other applications that will allow for the interconnection of Taxisnet with the online systems of Hellenic Exchanges and the National Land Register, along with the Labor Ministry's Ergani hirings database.

Consequently taxpayers will have to do their own calculations as far as their...