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Excuse me, what? If they know what 100% of my income is, they can tax it.

Payments under the table stay there; that money is not part of your percentage. People receive payments and make payments without that money ever appearing on any bank accounts.

This is unenforceable and doesn’t solve anything.

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The point is the second order effects. You a may pay taxes, but the shops you spend your taxed income might be lieing on their taxes. Any electronic spending you made will not give the shops room to under report. In turn that shops electronic money forces the shops to force their employees to take taxed money, otherwise the shops could not claim the wages against the income.

This comment here was what struck me immediately upon reading the story. Surely the Greek state has thought of that? Surely?

You have no idea how stupid they are

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