The Greek government's goal is to implement a fair tax system, Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou said on Thursday.Speaking to reporters, the Greek minister said there was currently provocative wealth in certain professions that was systematically tax-evading and stressed that finance ministry agencies would intensify inspections as part of a new tax reform promoted by teh government.
Papakonstantinou said the government was giving a daily battle over Greek state bonds' spreads and that Eurostat -the EU executive's statistics agency- would draft a recommendation over the country's macro-economic data after completing a three-day official visit to Greece.
The Greek minister said that a state budget for 2010, to be tabled to Parliament on Friday, would include changes, mainly in the spending leg. Papakonstantinou said the new budget would not be printed for cost-cutting reasons and would be distributed in the form of CDs.
