The number of taxpayers who cannot pay their time is steadily increasing taxes them, resulting in “inflating” and overall debt in the tax office. At the end of July, € 111.8 billion reached, while over 172,000 taxpayers were added to the debtors’ list in one year.
The increase in debt taxpayers is recorded in both small debts of up to 10,000 euros and in large debts of millions, Ertnews notes. The details of the quarterly report of the State Budget Office in Parliament (GPC) show that total debts increased by EUR 4,558 billion compared to the end of July 2024.
23.57% of the total amount of arrears to tax authorities, which corresponds to € 26.35 billion, relates to debts characterized as “unpaid recovery”, that is, cases where the debt is impossible to collect, because the debtor and co -owners its requirements.
Of the total theoretical debts (€ 84.5 billion), only 2.96% (€ 3.31 billion) are regulated.
The largest volume of debts comes from 0.25% of debtors. That is, only 9,946 natural and legal entities owe 76.32% of the total amount of debts, and over 1,000,000 euros each.
In contrast, over 3,600,000 natural and legal entities owe up to 10,000 euros.
In particular, the details of the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) presented by the GPKB. show that:
-60.99% of non -unparalleled debt collection of € 85.47 billion, ie EUR 52.12 billion, stem from tax debts. The remaining amount comes from other categories, which have a low collection rate, such as fines (tax and non -tax) which make up 28.57%, reaching EUR 24.41 billion and non -tax debts (loans, costs, costs, etc.), which accounts for € 10.45%. Given that € 8.46 billion from tax debts stem from insolvent debtors and EUR 15.86 billion relates to debts with a installment debt over the last decade, there is EUR 27.3 billion in debt, according to ADD data. That is, almost all of the receipts comes from only 31.95% of non -unparalleled debt collection.
Further analyzing the tax debts included in the actual arrears (EUR 52.12 billion), it is found that the largest percentage (47.73%) relates to VAT, as debts reach € 24.88 billion. Following is 41.70% income tax, while property taxes recorded a low rate of 5.36% after including debts of just € 2.79 billion.
-At the end of July 2025 there is an increase in the number of taxpayers who are debtors of overdue debts by 172,263 (natural and legal) persons compared to the end of July 2024. This number was set at 4,001,794 at the end of July. This increase comes from the lower debt categories (up to EUR 20,000), with the number of debtors in this category increasing by 154,998.
-96.5% of total debts are more than 10,000 euros. In particular, 76.32% of debts are more than € 1 million, which owes only 0.25% of debtors. That is, EUR 85,347 billion from € 111,829 billion of all debts are only 9,946 natural and legal entities. In contrast, 90.38% of debtors, ie 3,616,881 natural and legal entities, owe up to 10,000 euros of arrears, totaling only EUR 3.88 billion and accounts for only 3.47% of total debts.
-The debts of natural persons account for 38.2% of the total, reaching € 42.7 billion, while legal entities are € 69.1 billion, which corresponds to 61.8% of the total.
-In small amounts of debt, almost all of the overdue balance comes from natural persons. It is indicative that 98% of the debts below 50 euros and 87.6% of debts below 10,000 euros stem from natural persons. Correspondingly, the number of natural persons who owe less than 50 euros accounts for 95.9% of debtors in this category of debt, while for debts of less than 10,000 euros the number of natural persons stood at the end of July 2025 at 3,197,097, up to 88.4% of the debt.
– On the contrary, as the amount of debts increases, so does the role of legal entities in the formation of the overdue balance, as it is characteristic that in the category of over 1 million euros, the legal entities are involved in the debts of 69.8%, with their debts of € 69.8%. Similarly, the number of legal entities owed more than € 1 million stood at 6.151, accounting for 61.84% of the number of debts with debts of over € 1 million.
– Just 2.96% of total arrears of EUR 111.829 billion has been subject to partial payment arrangement. This corresponds to debts of just € 3.31 billion. The highest percentage of total regulated debts (16%) is located in debts of 500 to 10,000 euros, while within that range the percentage of regulated debts reach 18.62% for amounts from 2,000 to 3,000 euros.