[threeseed]

Speaking about Greece specifically.

The level of tax avoidance is completely unacceptable: 24.3% of GDP versus 13.5% in Germany in 2012.

If the government had twice the revenue it would've been in a far better position.

[abricot]

This has been explained time and again.

To get to the bottom of tax avoidance, people have to see and feel the benefit of paying tax. In Greece they simply don't, and it hasn't gotten any better in recent years.

The average German can easily list the benefits they receive from their government.