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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-08-02
CONTENTS
[01] List of tax evading companies released
[02] Pigeons poisoned
[01] List of tax evading companies released
The finance ministry's financial crimes corps (SDOE) on Monday released
a list of 70 companies found to be seriously in violation of taxation
legislation, folliwng audits conducted by the SDOE in stepped up
efforts to clamp down on tax evasion.
Penalties for tax evasion provided under the new taxation legislation
will be imposed on those companies in September, according to SDOE,
which include increased fines and even shutdown of the enterprises.
SDOE secretary general Yiannis Kapeleris told ANA-MPA that in the
two-month period of June and July, SDOE conducted 800 audits on
enterprises in the islands of the Aegean and ascertained 15,000
violations of tax law, the majority of which were failure to issue
receipts.
[02] Pigeons poisoned
An unidentified motorcyclist poisoned some 500 pigeons in Kotzia square
in downtown Athens on Sunday afternoon.
Acccording to an eyewitness, a motorcyclist, wearing a crash helmet,
parked his motorcycle on the sidewalk at the square, which was nearly
empty of pedestrians due to the heat, fed seed to the pigeons that was
apparantly poisoned, and left.
About a half hour after his departure, the square was scattered with
dead pigeons.
According to Athens deputy mayor Andreas Papadakis, approximately 500
dead pigeons were collected from the square.
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