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Arthur the cat Silver badge

Greeks pay all their taxes?

@nk: "Also, as a tax paying Greek, I resent that remark about not paying taxes. I know it was meant somewhat as a joke but still."

I'm not sure it was. Even the usually reliable up-market broadsheet papers in the UK have printed stories of Greek professionals like doctors filing tax returns stating their total annual income as only about 5,000 Euros. *If* that is true, you have a trichotomy - either Greek doctors are too stupid to realise they could make much better money elsewhere in the EU, or they're saints who charge their patients ridiculously small amounts of money and live lives of Franciscan poverty, or they're doing a lot on the black economy and thus not paying taxes. Given my experience of human nature, my money is on the third although I don't rule out individual cases in the other two categories.

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