Taxpayers can now choose alternative ways to pay their tax liabilities via the internet and through banking networks outside of branches.

More specifically, it is now possible to repay debts to the State, regulated or not, using cards, through the Taxisnet. Also, all banks today have mobile and internet banking, with the number of active users in each category exceeding three million traders.

Banks take every opportunity to remind their customers of the technological possibilities (internet and mobile banking, ATMs) that they offer to better serve them and to avoid of Synchronization in the shops.

As they report, the bill payments, telephone, electricity, water supply, public services (tax office, insurance companies, etc.), can be done quickly, easily and safely from home, noting that those who are not familiar with the new technologies can turn to the telephone service centers and perform a large number of transactions. They can also be served at one of the 6,000 ATM which operate daily and around the clock throughout the country and perform many banking operations such as withdrawals, deposits, payments, transaction updates and balances.

Taxpayers can also repay tax debts to the tax authorities at Network Agency of OPAP in those areas that remain open (which are in the Surveillance level) using their cards, intact and with speed.

Alternative networks in our country already have a history of many years. In 1981, Alpha Bank (then known as Bank of Credit) was the first in Greece to install Automatic Teller Machines known as ATMs. In 1998, Alpha Bank was also the first in Greece to launch Alpha Web Banking, which introduced Internet banking. In 1988 Alpha Bank had launched the Cashcard Visa, the first banking and credit card in Greece, which was a combination of a credit card and a card for cash withdrawals and deposits.