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...Greece, doctors, lawyers, accountants and other self-employed professionals are among the worst offenders, says Georgakopoulos, the tax head. To prove the point, the ministry released tax information last November about doctors in the wealthy Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki, where the streets are lined with shops selling brands like Prada and Louis Vuitton. Nearly a third of registered doctors there declared annual incomes of less than $22,000. In all of Greece - a country of 11 million people - only 3,125 people declared incomes more than $280,000. "Everyone who can avoid paying taxes does," says Georgakopoulos. "The only ones...
...will be difficult. Greece's tax-collection system is an antiquated mess. The state's various financial-information databases are haphazard and fragmented. No single program can pull up all the data about a single taxpayer; without tedious manual cross-checks, there's no way to flag the Kolonaki doctor who is declaring a pittance but living in a multimillion-dollar apartment. So decentralized is the whole system that until recently, Greece's government didn't even know how many people it had on its payroll. (See 10 things to do in Athens...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder You don't have to be a top athlete to take home some gold from the Games. Athenians have been working the metal for millennia, and the glitzy Kolonaki district has a high concentration of jewelers purveying classic and modern designs. Start out at Ilias Lalaounis, on 6 Panepistimiou Street, tel: (30-210) 362 4354, with its eclectic collection that ranges from solid-gold Byzantine-style necklaces to thoroughly modern earrings with the jagged contours of a Frank Gehry...
...emancipation but not institutional change. The educational system, banks, the church have lagged behind." Actress Melina Mercouri, who is running for reelection on the PASOK ticket from the same Piraeus district in which she never worked on Sunday, points toward the harbor from her penthouse in Athens' posh Kolonaki district. "Can you imagine that almost within sight of us there are thousands of people living without running water, without proper sewage, with very little medical care?" she asks...
...blazing Athens morning, but the shades were tightly drawn in the modest second-story apartment in the residential section of Kolonaki. With urgent, hurried gestures, Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 64, ushered 15 visitors into his darkened living room. "We have only five minutes," he said. "Let us not stay here too long." Then the last constitutionally appointed Premier of Greece, who was overthrown, imprisoned and later released after the April 21 army coup, broke his long silence with a direct, head-on attack on Greece's military rulers...