Instead of Accountability, they chose
404.
On 21/05/2026, shortly after the public pressure exerted by the fix1517.gr platform, the official guidance of the Ministry of Finance for submitting tax evasion reports by phone to 1517 was removed from gov.gr. The page now returns a 404 error. The phone line continues to operate without recording any reports. The official letter (Ref. 188600) remains unanswered for 207 days.
WHAT THE STATE SAID. WHAT THE LINE SAYS.
How to file a report
Reports may be submitted orally or in writing, named or anonymously.
- In person at the S.D.O.E. offices (Alkifronos 92 & Pireos 207, office 401 – 4th floor)
- By mail (Address: Alkifronos 92 & Pireos 207, 118 53 ATHENS)
- By email (kataggelies@sdoe.gr)
- By phone at 1517
"We don't accept reports over the phone."
We Now Demand
1. Public Statement & Apology
The Ministry must publicly acknowledge that the official information on gov.gr misled citizens for over six months, and apologize to those who attempted to report tax fraud following state guidance.
2. Administrative Transparency
Clarify exactly when and under which administrative act the 1517 line stopped recording phone reports.
The Institutional Silence Continues (Ref. 188600)
They may have deleted their page and serve a 404, but they still refuse to answer my official letter. Time is counting against them.
Before & After:
The hasty disappearance.
The False Guidance (Until yesterday)
Reporting tax evasion
You can report tax-evasion incidents named or anonymously, by one of the following means:
The Hasty Deletion (Today)
The page with the 1517 instructions disappeared from gov.gr a few days after fix1517.gr made noise.
What is your view on the hasty deletion of the page (404) from gov.gr?
The Simulator of Despair
Press the button. Live the experience. No charge. No solution.
A note on the absurd:
The S.D.O.E. was abolished and its audit powers transferred to AADE. The four-digit 1517 was retained. The ability to file a report by phone, according to the line's own responses, was not retained. No administrative act confirming the change has been published.
The Ghost Call Center
This is where the joke stops and the waste of public money begins. Now that the page is deleted and the line is officially "abolished" on gov.gr, what exactly are the staff at the call center doing this morning?
How much taxpayer money does it cost to run a public structure — with buildings, infrastructure and staff — whose only operational instruction is to pick up the phone and say "hang up"?
A state mechanism with zero output
A call center that doesn't take calls. A mechanism that doesn't perform the function it was designed for. And yet it keeps running — and costing money — as usual.
Buildings & Infrastructure
Rented or state premises, equipment, telephony
Staff
Payroll for employees who reply "we don't accept reports"
Operating Expenses
Power, maintenance, phone lines, logistics
Zero Output
The only instruction: "hang up". No real service.
Why was this site built?
The real story.
The "Magic" Button
An AADE-certified hotel ERP allows deletion of completed stays. Cash hits the till, the reservation vanishes, myDATA is bypassed.
The Digital Block
The AADE platform throws an error and refuses the report. Whether it trips on the software vendor's tax ID, the content, or a dead endpoint — the outcome is the same: the digital path is effectively dead.
The Great Ghosting
1517 refuses to take the report. Financial Police (11012) don't answer 24 logged calls.
The Closed Door
The director of the local tax office illegally refuses to accept the document and turns the citizen away.
The Counterattack
The full fraud complaint is filed directly with the Prosecutor. But 1517 keeps mocking the public.
Public Pressure
With institutional paths exhausted, this platform was built. Goal: organize public pressure to break the omertà and fix 1517, so no whistleblower ends up in catch-22 again.
What is the solution to the paradox?
The Ministry stays silent. Since today's system is broken, what should happen to stop the charade? Vote:
Either way, the Ministry owes a clear answer and must take responsibility.
Demand the Solution.
Four buttons. Two minutes. Zero excuses.