The International Monetary Fund has asked the Netherlands to send ‘several’ tax department officials to help Greece improve its taxation collection, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.

The officials would join the International Monetary Fund team in Athens, the paper says.
‘Tax collection is one of the major problems in Greece,’ finance ministry spokesman Niels Redeker told the paper. ‘It is crucial to make improvements.’
Another civil servant told the paper the ministry wants to be sure Greece itself is keen on having Dutch support.
‘The Greeks must feel it is their idea otherwise it won’t work,’ he said. ‘They should not feel we are taking over their tax collection.’
The EU is also putting together a 25-strong team to help the Greek government, which is also likely to involve Dutch nationals, the paper says.