Every other Greek has tax debts

Tax authorities have launched a wave of confiscations in response to the steady growth of expired debts to the state, which since 2014 have been increasing at a rate of 1 billion euros per month.

Statistics from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue show that from January 2014 to April 2017, taxpayers failed to meet tax obligations adding up to 43.4 billion euros. In 2014 their debts reached 13.77 billion euros (or 1.14 billion per month), in 2015 they came to 13.48 billion (1.12 billion per month), last year they amounted to 12.16 billion (1.01 billion per month) and in the first four months of the year they totaled 4.03 billion euros or 1.007 billion per month.

Data from tax authorities show that every day since the start of the year they have engaged in an average of 527 confiscations of salaries, pensions and bank account contents in general. This adds up to...