As Greece’s new tax will become the law of the land, the Finance Ministry’s general secretary for tax and customs affairs, Dimitris Georgakopoulos, told the head of revenue collection services to boost efforts to collect taxes at a crucial time for the economy.

According to Mr. Georgakopoulos, the income reported by some tax offices has missed intended targets by more than 10 percent, with a number of them falling short of projected revenues by more than 20 percent.

At the same time, some 23 tax offices have not handed in data on the taxes collected in the first three months of the year, prompting the general secretary to describe their behavior as “unacceptable.”

Mr. Georgakopoulos instructed the tax office heads to do more to meet goals and chase down taxpayers with debts owed to the state by resorting to measures such as repossessing homes and seizing money from bank accounts.

Data from the Finance Ministry show that debts owed to the government by taxpayers amounts to 32 billion euros.

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