article_snippet: The Greek government has proposed hiring tourists to help uncover tax dodging businesses in holiday resorts as part of The Greek government efforts to rescue the country’s shattered finances.
article_snippet: Holidaymakers could be recruited alongside students and housewives to form an army of so-called ‘onlookers’ carrying hidden cameras and recorders to catch tax dodgers.
article_snippet: Arguing that tax authorities were overstretched, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis suggests hiring ‘large numbers of non-professional inspectors’ to spread fear among tax-avoiders.
article_snippet: Plan would involve basic training for the amateur tax sleuths who would be ‘wired for sound and video.
article_snippet: The inspectors, who would operate across the country with tourists most suitable for spying on resort areas, would not be able to confront tax dodgers or have any authority to carry out checks but the evidence checks collected could be used in prosecutions.
article_snippet: non-professional inspectors would be hired for a maximum of two months and would not be re-hired.
article_snippet: Secret filming: Holiday makers could be recruited alongside students and housewives to form an army of so-called ‘onlookers’ carrying hidden cameras .
article_snippet: ‘onlookers’ are everywhere, bearing audio and video recording equipment on behalf of the tax authorities, has the capacity to shift attitudes very quickly spreading a sense of justice across society and engendering a new tax compliance culture,’ Varoufakis writes in ’ Varoufakis letter.
highlights_snippet: Holiday makers could be recruited alongside students and housewives .
  
highlights_snippet: All would be ‘onlookers’ carrying hidden cameras to catch tax dodgers .
  