“In the coming months,” the citizens will have a maximum reduction of taxes from 42 to 32% of their income, and companies see the maximum payable tax down from 26 to 15%, said the prime minister.
The prime minister of Greece, Antonis Samaras, today announced a 30% reduction of excise duty on fuel for heating and a reduction of ten points in the maximum tax burden borne by citizens and businesses.
So, “the coming months” citizens will have a maximum reduction of taxes from 42 to 32% of their income, and companies see the ceiling down to pay tax of 26 to 15%, said the Prime Minister, in his opening speech of the Thessaloniki International Fair, which anticipated the end of the economic and financial crisis and the “beginning of a new era in Greece.”
” This will be the year that Greece can begin to sustain itself in the foot again, in which Greece can look forward and not backward, in which pass from recession to growth and that there will be a reduction in unemployment, ” said the prime minister, concluding that the current quarter will be the first in 24 that the economy will not expand and contract.
Among the promises of tax reduction is also a ” significant reduction of solidarity “, also imposed at the beginning of the adjustment agreed with the ‘troika’ program, which resulted in a drastic increase in the tax burden.
The tax on heating fuel was one of the measures adjustment that was noticeably more painful because forced many families to endure the winter without possibility of warm houses due to lack of money to support the tax increase, remember the Spanish agency Efe.
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