{"id":222654,"date":"2025-06-29T00:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222654\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T00:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:36:12","slug":"greece-tops-eu-charts-in-indirect-and-property-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222654\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Tops EU Charts in Indirect and Property Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece continues to lead the way in indirect and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tovima.com\/finance\/greece-considers-penalty-tax-for-owners-of-vacant-properties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">property<\/a> taxation among EU countries, according to the European Commission\u2019s Annual Report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tovima.com\/finance\/greece-makes-progress-on-tax-evasion-but-e41-billion-shadow-economy-limits-tax-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taxation<\/a> 2025, which covers fiscal data from 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that indirect taxes in Greece amounted to 17.3% of GDP, placing the country fourth among the EU\u2019s 27 member states. Meanwhile, property taxes reached 2.7% of GDP, the third highest rate in the EU after France and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to indirect taxation, only Croatia, Sweden, and Hungary ranked above Greece. Notably, 44.4% of Greece\u2019s total tax revenue in 2023 came from consumption taxes, compared to the EU-27 average of 33.2%. Overall, indirect tax revenues totaled 38.9 billion euros, with VAT alone accounting for 8.8% of GDP\u2014ranking Greece 11th on that specific metric.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High Special Consumption and Environmental Taxes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special consumption taxes\u2014imposed on fuel, alcohol, and tobacco\u2014were particularly high, reaching 5.2% of GDP. This places Greece second among EU member states. Environmental taxes also stood out, comprising 4.1% of GDP, again the second highest rate in the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commission\u2019s figures, Greece\u2019s total tax revenue in 2023 amounted to 38.9% of GDP, just shy of the EU average of 39%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lagging in Direct Taxation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The picture shifts significantly when it comes to direct taxes. Greece lags behind the EU average, with direct taxes\u2014including personal and corporate income taxes\u2014amounting to just 10.4% of GDP. This places the country 16th in the EU ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking that down, personal income taxes contributed only 5.9% of GDP (18th place), while corporate income taxes accounted for 2.9% of GDP (17th place), underscoring the imbalance in Greece\u2019s tax structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece continues to lead the way in indirect and property taxation among EU countries, according to the European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2557,1699,87860],"class_list":{"0":"post-222654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-commission","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-greece-taxation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114763857067947759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}