That is interesting (re: tax gap). I'm wondering what was said about the Greek tax gap during formation of the EU; if it was considered irrelevant or it was somehow understood that Greece would fix this incrementally during its membership.
I have a little conspiracy in mind where these inefficiencies were OK, allowing Greek take-home wages to be adequate for a time, despite lower productivity. And that Greece was supposed to find a way to close the gap while upping productivity--which it didn't/couldn't.
On 1/31/12, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
>>> is there evidence that tax evasion is really endemic in Greece?
>
> Here's a (dry) paper that talks about it a little; they seem to indicate
> that Greece has very low levels of tax compliance relative to the
> Eurozone.
>
> http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21465/1/MPRA_paper_21465.pdf
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> /jordan
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