Tax revenues in January 2017 exceeded budget targets by 258 million euros, the newly created Independent Authority for Public Revenues (AADE) announced on Friday.
Creation of the new entity is a memorandum-mandated obligation under the third bailout that the current leftist government signed in the summer of 2015.
AADE said that the January 2017 figures confirmed a satisfactory trend in tax collection.
Tax revenue, before returns, totaled 4.270 billion euros in January, up 6.43 percent from a target of 4.012 billion for the first months of 2017. Income tax returns reached 314 million euros, up 6.08 percent from a target of 296 million euros.
