A new national property register is expected to come online by the end of March. The Property Ownership and Management Register (MIDA) is the AADE’s digital platform to which all the data which are currently dispersed among Tax Offices, the Land Registry and HEDNO (the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator – DEDDIE in Greek) will be transferred, constituting a single, unified archive.
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Road tax rates for 2026 now available online
Details of the road tax payable for 2026 have now been posted online. The rates are the same as last year and the tax must be paid by the deadline of 31st December. Failure to pay on time will result in a fine calculated as follows:
– 25% of the tax if it is paid within the month of January 2026.
– 50% of the tax if it is paid by the end of February.
– 100 per cent if its is paid from 1st March onwards.
In all cases the fine will not be less than €30.00
Further steps against tax evasion
Following the recent government reshuffle, on 21st March the newly appointed Finance minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis paid a first visit to the Independent Authority for Public Income (AADE) for a working meeting with its director Giorgos Pitsilis.
Continue readingRoad tax details for 2025 announced
Details of the vehicle road tax rates payable for 2025 have now been posted on the AADE website. The road tax must be paid by 31st December of this year. Vehicle owners can download a form which states the amount due and gives a payment code for payment at a bank or post office, by going to the AADE website at https://www.aade.gr/teli-kykloforias-horis-kodikoys-taxisnet
Continue readingBlacklists of tax debtors published
As we pointed out in a previous post, Greece’s recurrent financial problems have partly resulted from the twin problems of tax evasion and the large amount of unpaid tax debts. Along with measures against tax evasion such as the obligatory use of POS terminals to encourage card payments and restrictions on the size of cash payments, the government is this year intensifying its efforts to recover outstanding tax debts, using its access to bank accounts to locate funds and speeding up the process of sequestration to forestall attempts to remove the funds elsewhere.
Continue readingCard payments in the fight against tax evasion
The crisis which brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy in 2009 and onwards was in part due to the inability of successive governments to take in enough tax to cover their costs. More recently, at the end of 2023, the population’s total outstanding debt to the public purse was estimated to be €80 billion, or 20 per cent of the national debt (the latter, at around €400 billion or 162% of GDP for the same year, being the 4th highest in the world in percentage terms). But this was only the figure for established debts, many of which will have been for unpaid income tax. Equally, if not more important, is the potential tax due on undeclared incomes.
Continue readingNew retrieval system for outstanding taxes
According to a report in the Haniotika Nea of 6th October, the middle of the month will see the full implementation of the EISPRAXIS initiative, which enables the AADE, the Independent Authority for Public Incomes, to track down and sequester resources from those owing back taxes to the government.
While tax evasion has been an ongoing issue for the tax authorities, and one of the major causes of Greece’s financial troubles during the economic crisis, the current situation shows that identifying taxes due is only one facet of the problem. Currently 4.2 million people, or 40 per cent of the Greek population, owe back taxes, which amount to a staggering 112 billion euros, or 28 per cent of total government debt. (The latter stood at 394 billion euros at the end of the second quarter of 2022 according to the Bank of Greece.)
The scheme has been piloted in some areas since last month and will shortly go nationwide, once the training of 1,100 AADE employees who will be employed in tracking down defaulters has been completed.
The new information system will examine the financial profile of every person who owes back taxes, and allow immediate action to secure payment of the debt.
Data will be collated from all the AADE’s systems including the Taxis and Elenxis tax information systems, Icisnet (for electronic Customs transactions), as well as other bodies (the Land Registry, the General Commercial Register GEMI) and also the tax authorities of other EU member states.
Each debtor will be given a separate electronic file which will be monitored in real time and at the same time other associated parties such as joint debtors, debt guarantors and legal representatives will be kept under observation.