A ‘Sibylline Authority’ in a Growing Economy, 1955–1967

Zoi Pittaki ()
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Zoi Pittaki: Brunel University London

Chapter Chapter 3 in Exploring the Roots of Systematic Tax Avoidance in Greece, 2021, pp 63-115 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on 1955–1967, a period which saw an important growth in the Greek economy but also a ‘peculiar mixture of authoritarianism and democracy, exclusion and prosperity, ideological backwardness and cultural vigour’. The years explored here witnessed the introduction of laws that brought about a series of reforms in the tax system which, however, did not bring about any long-lasting improvement in the organisation of the tax bureaus. The various weaknesses burdening the tax administration structures seemed to cause difficulties to business and, as the evidence indicates, appeared to be a factor of uncertainty that discouraged industrial investment, even within a wider framework of rapid economic growth.

Keywords: Greek entrepreneurship; Greece in the 1960s; Golden years; Tax reforms; Weaknesses of greek tax administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71979-1_3

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