A SIGN OF IDENTITY AND OF CULTURE MEDITERRANEA

One of the main challenges to those that the New Greek Government faces is to get his taxpayers to pay their taxes. Thousands of millions of Eurus that it should be paid to the revenue by law, are never paid. Either through the submerged economy or for other more sophisticated techniques that allow the Greeks to avoid the payment of the taxes and tributes. This same we could say it of Spain and the Spanish ones and also of the Italians that which takes us the conclusion that this same bad habit is characteristic of the Mediterranean. 

That is necessary to analyze it is because it happens this because we don't like to pay taxes. To begin any study it is necessary to look for the relationship points that exist in common, first and from this we can begin to relate causes. The first relationship point is that the three countries were in its moment empires, this is important because it means that they lived off the taxes that put to their conquered, this fact it can have created in our subconscious one that to pay taxes is of having defeated of slaves it is a punishment. 

Then the governments of each country in their imperial moment (the most modern was Spain) they didn't use the taxes for their town, but for the benefit of kings, noblemen’s and to maintain armies to make the war, then they didn't have an education of using them for the service to the town, rather on the contrary, they used them to pay soldiers to go to for more wealth for them.  

They already come the things they are sometimes so simple of explaining how this. How different they were the Central European societies of the Mediterranean ones. The calls for the Terrible Latin’s didn't have empires they paid the taxes well to their rulers, well to their king or boss that if it used them to improve and to defend the town village etc. Like the concepts that each group gave to the taxes come they were very different.   

The question is that today this problem appears in all the countries of the south of Europe the Mediterranean ones it is they empires. As it publishes the financial newspaper Wall Street Journal, the Greeks owe the Government around 76.000 million Eurus in having not imposed paid during decades, although most of this quantity has accumulated from 2009. The Government has explained that in most of the cases they have become effective losses because those non-paid taxes come from people that have been declared insolvent. Even so, about 9.000 million Eurus are still recoverable.  

The IMF and other international institutions have tried to elaborate next to Greece systems to fight against the fiscal fraud, the escape and the exclusion. And it is that according to the Wall Street Journal, the crisis you could have solved in a quick way if Greece had eliminated the fiscal escape. The fiscal debt that they have the Greeks with its State is equal to 90% of the annual incomes for taxes, as he informs the Organization for the Cooperation and the development. 

But a Greek doesn't want to pay taxes it is not in his motivations because he has never made willingly it the obligation of a Greek of a Spanish and of an Italian it is not to pay taxes or the less possible ones, this way although the tax types in Greece are at similar levels to those of the rest of the Eurozone, the Greek State collects less than other countries. I am not me alone the one that I say it. According to Aristides Hatzis, professor of Right and Economy of the University of Athens, the Greeks have aversion to pay imposed by cultural reasons. 

The Mediterranean ones consider the taxes as a robbery... the taxes are Usually considered as the price that it is necessary to pay for logger a fair State, but this alone it is partly in the mentalities center and European north because like he said the tax before it was not good to improve their lives, this reality is not accepted by the Mediterranean ones. As this professor explains, during the years of Turkish occupation it was seen as an act of patriotism avoid to pay the taxes to the authorities invasions. 

That tradition seems that he has stayed in the time. A good example is the habitual practices in a small hotel to the outskirts of Greece. The owner of this establishment explains that he pays from a legal way to his employees the minimum wage, but also pay some supplements in 'B', we all come out livestock, the employee gets paid more and we pay less this is exactly what passed in Spain and Italy until less than 20 years recently but it is that today is still very justifiable for the common society to try to pay the less possible thing the truth is that there is also blame part on the part of the national governments because they also teach us to that they give us the less possible thing and the rest takes it to him in its pockets. 

Besides this social culture a very attractive natural fact exists and it is the easiness with which in the Mediterranean lands one has lived they will always see in Spain, Italy (I center south) and Greece the life is easy if it is compared with center people and European north in the Mediterranean it was not necessary a lot to live the wealth of the earth the hunt abundance and mainly the absence of frozen winters allowed the human being not to have the necessity to be part of a very severe society, he could live here today, tomorrow there, hunting and escaping from the authority, because the authority for him was the tyranny and the possibility that they caught you to make of soldier. 

This on the contrary in the European north and center it was impossible there the society should protect in groups it was impossible to happen alone one winter you died almost sure also in winter there was not crop some neither animals within reach of the hand there was that cowshed of being protected and this needed of the contribution and the effort of the whole group this friends readers bear a very different education and this makes understand that it is necessary to contribute goods to the community for then to be distributed or taken advantage by all and undoubtedly they also had their noblemen but these in turn knew also that or they fed to its society or the following year they would be conquered by the neighboring group. 

In short that when I say that Europe is not a nation you what I tell myself Europe is a continent and until one way or another he conforms to and it is stabilized like a single society won't come out for that reason I always say as example that Germany is Europe but Europe is not Germany.