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The government is building on the successful application of its measures against tax evasion and is introducing a new batch of interventions for 2025 that should improve tax compliance further and allow for middle incomes to have more of the burden that has been placed on them lifted.
The measures taken to date have resulted in the growth of tax revenue by 1.8 billion euros, but National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis spoke on Thursday about new measures to limit tax evasion and serve citizens, most of them digital.
The new digital tools to be employed are the declaration by all companies of their income and expenses in myDATA from January 1, 2025, with the new myDATAapp application to be launched before the end of 2024, the launch of the Digital Customer Register in January 2025, the start of the mandatory implementation of the Digital Shipping Note in early 2025, and the universal expansion of the electronic invoice in the second half of next year.
At the same time, special apps will be launched via mobile phones for businesses and professionals who will be able to issue and transmit documents such as invoices and retail receipts directly to the myDATA platform. A new joint operational unit for tax and customs affairs will also be activated in the near future to handle the most demanding tax evasion and smuggling cases in the field. The new unit will be called the Financial Transactions Control Forces (DEOS).
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated that the middle class and especially middle-income earners have seen tax reductions; however, “we can be even more committed to their relief until 2027.”
“If we have a stable overperformance from structural measures, we can reduce tax rates and convince the EU that these measures are permanently effective. Greece is achieving its fiscal targets, reducing debt, having three times the growth rate of the European average and reducing taxes,” the prime minister argued.