{"id":36230,"date":"2012-12-15T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_tax_evasion_costs_greece_5_pct_of_gdp_eu_tax_chief\/"},"modified":"2012-12-15T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T21:28:08","slug":"reuters_tax_evasion_costs_greece_5_pct_of_gdp_eu_tax_chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36230","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Tax evasion costs Greece 5 pct of GDP : EU tax chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece could generate budget revenues amounting to 5 percent of national output annually if it reforms tax collection and clamps down on tax cheats, the European Union&#8217;s tax chief told a Greek newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Athens plans reforms next year to combat rampant tax evasion as it struggles to shore up public finances and achieve a primary budget surplus, both necessary to continue receiving bailout aid from international lenders.<\/p>\n<p>The euro zone agreed on Thursday to provide nearly 50 billion euros ($64 billion) in long-delayed aid to Greece, averting a catastrophic default and securing its survival in the zone after months of doubt and political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/12\/15\/us-greece-taxation-idUSBRE8BE0C320121215\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece could generate budget revenues amounting to 5 percent of national output annually if it reforms tax collection and clamps down on tax cheats, the European Union&#8217;s tax chief told a Greek newspaper. Athens plans reforms next year to combat<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36230\">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":[39,40,50,149,168,200,454,114,151,587,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-greece","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-taxes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230","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=36230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}