{"id":32922,"date":"2012-06-07T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/greece_warns_of_going_broke_as_tax_proceeds_dry_up\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:15:24","slug":"greece_warns_of_going_broke_as_tax_proceeds_dry_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32922","title":{"rendered":"Greece Warns of Going Broke as Tax Proceeds Dry Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essential element of Greece\u2019s recovery plan has been to collect more taxes from a population that has long engaged in tax avoidance. The government is owed 45 billion euros in back taxes, tax officials in Athens said, only a fraction of which will ever be recovered.<\/p>\n<p>To understand the difficulty, just talk to Nikos Maitos, a longtime official in Greece\u2019s financial crimes investigation unit.<\/p>\n<p>When he and a team of inspectors recently prowled the recession-hit island of Naxos for tax evaders, a local radio station broadcast his license plate number to warn residents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/47700847\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential element of Greece\u2019s recovery plan has been to collect more taxes from a population that has long engaged in tax avoidance. The government is owed 45 billion euros in back taxes, tax officials in Athens said, only a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32922\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,460,149,200,144,454,114,151,587,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-economy","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-greece","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-taxes","category-the-banking-systemsector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}