The government plans to launch online bookkeeping, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras revealed on Thursday. The platform is to slowly be launched as of the last quarter of 2019 and be in full operation by 2020. All businesses and freelancers can fill-in their tax books electronically and directly in the TaxisNet …
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