GRE阅读练习： 逃税漏税者在希腊受严惩.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 逃税漏税者在希腊受严惩 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习： 逃税漏税者在希腊受严惩 GRE考试精品课程训练  Greek officials used to shrug off tax evasion as “a national sport”. The finance ministry focused on raising revenue through indirect taxes such as value-added tax. Meanwhile income from a flourishing black economy financed the building of second homes on the islands, in Greece’s Arcadian heartland or moved into bank accounts abroad.  希腊官员曾经将逃漏税看作一场“全民运动”，对其并不重视。财政部主要通过增值税之类的间接税收来增加收入。同时，繁荣的黑市经济创造的收入一部分走入希腊田园牧歌般的中部的二手房市场，一部分流入境外银行账户。  Those days are over. As Greece struggles to put its public finances in order, property owners have been hit by a volley of new taxes and holders of Swiss bank accounts are under uncomfortable scrutiny. Hot Doc, an investigative magazine, recently published a list of 2,000Greeks who kept accounts at a Geneva branch of HSBC.  这样的日子一去不复返了。当希腊挣扎着稳定公共金融秩序的时候，房产主受到了各种新税种的连番轰炸，瑞士银行持股人也处于监控之下，无法安心。调查性杂志《热门档案》最近公布了一份名单，曝光了2000位在汇丰银行日内瓦分行开户的希腊富人。  Costas Vaxevanis, its editor, is adamant that to publish the list was in the public interest. (Many hard-up, law abiding Greeks would agree.) He argues that reforms of taxation have not gone far enough, despite recent efforts by the conservative-led coalition government of Antonis Samaras to pursue 54,000 taxpayers who sent 22 billion ($28.5 billion) abroad in2009-11. About 15,000 people transferred funds that were not declared to the tax authorities; the government now hopes to rake in an extra 2.25 billion in taxes.  杂志总编辑哥斯达斯·瓦瑟瓦尼斯坚称，公布这份名单是保护公众利益。(许多经济拮据并遵纪守法的希腊人会认同这一点)。 他声称，尽管最近保守派的安东尼斯·萨马拉斯领导的联合政府做出了许多努力，追查在2009至2011年间将220亿欧元(合285亿美元)转移到国外的54,000位纳税人，但税制改革还远远不够深入。大约有15,000人转移到境外的资产是未向政府申报的资产，希腊政府现在则希望税收收入快速增加22.5亿欧元。  Mr. Vaxevanis is due to be tried in Athens on November 1st on charges of violating data-privacy laws by publishing the list that contains names of politicians, ship owners and businesspeople. He accepts that some accounts held legitima