Eurozone creditors wanted a list of reforms, leftist SYRIZA sent them a list of … spending measures, and with revenue-generating targets touching on the surreal!

According to sources, the Tsipras government has “budgeted” additional revenue of 270 million euros from a receipts “lottery” — a method used in several countries to fight tax evasion by shops and self-employed professionals.

Curbing fuel smuggling, another decades-old scourge, is billed as bringing in another 250 million euros, with a whopping 725 million euros coming a tax on bank transfers overseas of previously untaxed cash.

One eyebrow-raising figure is a whopping 350 million euros from the sale of television broadcast licenses, that’s in a country where practically every company operating a TV channel is in the … red, to the tune of dozens of millions of euros!

The list of … spending hikes was reportedly sent to the so-called Brussels Group by Yanis Varoufakis’ office over the weekend, a development that again generated negative comments by partners.

The spending hikes, especially for low-income and vulnerable groups of society, is admirable, on the one hand, but on the other, flies in the face of Athens’ obligation to table measures to generate “guaranteed” revenue and avoid another budget deficit.