The head of the finance ministry’s relevant revenue department this week cited a plan to carry out 30,000 inspections of businesses during the ongoing summer holiday season, the peak tourism period in Greece.
The head of the finance ministry’s relevant revenue department this week cited a plan to carry out 30,000 inspections of businesses during the ongoing summer holiday season, the peak tourism period in Greece.
Giorgos Pitsilis, who heads the ministry’s general secretariat for public revenues, said the thousands of on-the-spot inspections by tax officials come in the wake of an “insufficient percentage” of checks by local tax bureaus. In a bid to overcome “hometown favoritism”, the tax bureau plans to rotate inspectors to other cities and towns – a system used readily in the past.