TAX PAYERS NEW FOUND HONESTY

Just under 35% of tax payers who had previously hidden or lied about their earnings came clean when they filed their tax returns last year, bringing an extra 1.48 billion euros into the government’s coffers. A Finance Ministry spokesman said the reason for their new-found honesty was the tax fraud prevention plan which has been in place since 2004, bringing in a total of 19 billion euros that was previously undeclared.