Go to Athens, Greece for a one-week vacation, and take the bus tour of the harbor. Once you stand there and gaze at over a minimum of 200 one-million-dollar or more yachts, and then you count at least two-thousand high-end sports cars around the harbor area of Athens...you come to ask if there is not a taxation problem.
Then you go back 2,500 years and discover that taxation avoidance started all the way back to that point. No guy who owns a hotel or high-end restaurant or franchise grocery operation....admits to any legit profits. Everything is hidden and done on the side. I won’t say this is the entire problem, but probably thirty-percent of the big issue of debt in Greece.
When we were in Greece a few years ago we noticed they have rebar and concrete blocks on the second floor of their “unfinished” houses...therefore, they don’t have to pay taxes because it is unfinished. Also, at a cafe we sat for some great coffee. There were no woman there in the middle of the day. I asked one of the men where the women were. He replied “at work where they should be”. They hung out for hours sipping their coffee. In the cities there were many ostentatious displays of wealth. The countryside seemed to have many poor people.
Greeks have it ingrained to avoid the Dhimi tax.
now taxes are just views as a German Tax.
Things did not go well under Turkish or German occupation.
Sorry, I don’t see a problem w/ your point. People doing what they can to NOT pay taxes...que surprise! We do it here in the U.S. as much as possible: paying under the table, ‘work orders’ not filled out...everything a BIT less w/ $$ on the barrel-head.
Now, if you had posted that the problem was a Socialist govt of ‘give people the profits of others they are not entitled, nor have any Right so they can sit on their asses and expect even more w/ every election’, I’d be in concurrence.