Another 664 million euros were added in April 2016 to the “red column” for outstanding debts to the tax bureau, with the sum now reaching the stratospheric 87.88 billion euros – roughly 50 percent of Greece’s GDP at present.
New outstanding debts to the tax bureau totaled 4.33 billion euros in the first four months of the year.
The figure as a percentage of GDP is atypical for European countries, with the second country on a relative list, Malta, posting a figure of 15 percent of GDP; 10 percent for Cyprus. Moreover, all the other remaining Euro zone member states show obligations towards their respective tax bureaus as under 10 percent of GDP.
