{"id":28063,"date":"2015-02-23T07:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28063"},"modified":"2015-02-23T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:38:39","slug":"its-a-bad-day-for-greek-tax-evaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/23\/its-a-bad-day-for-greek-tax-evaders\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a bad day for Greek tax evaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syriza has the nigh on impossible task of presenting a list of reforms to the IMF, ECB and EU today that does at the same time meet their needs and is capable of being explained domestically.<\/p>\n<p>There is only one way they can do that.<\/p>\n<p>Today will be bad news for Greek tax evaders. Whatever happens, today has to be the first in a programme that will really collect tax from those who owe it in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else can square the circle Syriza has to deliver today.<\/p>\n<p>But the reform is, anyway, essential for Greece.<\/p>\n<p>I don't think this will prevent Greece leaving the Euro. But no left wing society can be built on the basis of a tax administration that fails to tackle industrial scale tax abuse, so this is a policy Syriza can and should embrace, and which will buy the time that is needed and the domestic credibility that is essential.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the relevant authorities are sensible enough to accept it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syriza has the nigh on impossible task of presenting a list of reforms to the IMF, ECB and EU today that does at the same<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/02\/23\/its-a-bad-day-for-greek-tax-evaders\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}