MADRID - The alarmingly high unemployment in Spain may, in the light of the shadow economy are interpreted differently . End of 2012 there were 253 billion euros to the Spanish shadow economy . Thats almost a quarter of GDP. moonlighting © Stock This emerges from a study that was done by the unified tax inspectors ( GESTHA ) under the Ministry of Finance fall . Before the crisis , the percentage was still estimated at 17.8 percent . Rovira i Virgili University of Catalonia is one of the researchers of the report and says there just more people are plunged into the black economy . The tax increases that the government has made to get more money Thereby constitutes corruption within Spanish authorities an additional incentive for people to himself not nice to wear down their load and finally forcing the lack of any income as a result of long-term unemployment, many people in the black market for somewhere to get money. Many people are officially registered as unemployed but working in black at home and the garden , construction , agriculture or tourism . Others just work, but supplement their income by doing odd jobs where necessary . Black at Also, it is a common practice that people x number of hours white work and the rest of their working black get paid . According Rovira y Virgili it is practically impossible for all the Spanish tax authorities to monitor . There is only one tax inspector on a small 2,000 taxpayers . In Germany, for example, 1 to 729 . The Spanish black economy belongs to the largest in Europe . By comparison, in Greece is estimated to be 24 percent of GDP and 21 percent in Italy . According to the researchers , citizens in Spain by the great corruption within governments , daily news also dominate little motivation . If they do not pay , why should we do that? An invoice from the cleaning lady The researchers also mention the danger of an extra tight control on undeclared work . This would cause great social instability . Recently was reading the Voz Populi website that the government is working on a proposal to make certain activities for individuals tax deductible so ask for an invoice financially advantageous for them than for example the cleaning of black pay the babysitter or the plumber .
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:55:50 +0000
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