Greece trusts to immediately collect 2.5 billion euros from tax evaders by strengthening the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) authority further, said State Minister for Combating Corruption Panayiotis Nikoloudis on Tuesday. According to Kathimerini, Nikoloudis said that the government would pass a law allowing SDOE to rubber-stamp the imposition of tax rather than passing it over to tax offices, which often lack the resources to carry on.
Some 3,500 cases of tax evasion, amounting to 7 billion euros, were currently unearthed, but the state has yet to collect the taxes due, said Nikoloudis. 2.5 billion euros of this total could be retrieved straight away, he stressed.