|
|
|
Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 13-03-15
CONTENTS
[01] SYRIZA: Gov't prey to our lenders
[02] Gov't acknowledges poor results in effort to collect overdue debt
from wealthy taxpayers
[01] SYRIZA: Gov't prey to our lenders
AMNA--Main opposition SYRIZA on Friday, in an announcement, said that
despite Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' personal pledge that there will
be no more measures, the plans for the continuation of the special real
estate surtax collected via PPC electricity bills, once again indicate
the total political unreliability of the government, which is prey to
our lenders. Finally, the special real estate surtax, the abolition
of which was presented to be a red line between the government and the
troika, was Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras' recommendation.amna
The taking of new measures via the infamous 'exclusion clauses' is the
next step for a government which is hostage to a programme that has
failed in all its targets and has left behind a devastated society and
economy. The problem for the government is not the 500,000 household
without any income or the 1.5 million jobless or the closure of hundreds
of thousands of shops, but how it will implement to the end a programme
of disaster and devastation.
[02] Gov't acknowledges poor results in effort to collect overdue debt
from wealthy taxpayers
AMNA--The Greek government on Friday acknowledged poor results in an
effort to collect overdue tax debt from wealthy taxpayers.
Finance Deputy Minister George Mavraganis, in a report tabled to
Parliament, answering to a question by independent deputy Odysseas
Voudouris, said: "It is a fact that the results of a special tax
collection squad in the period from May 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012,
focused on 459 cases with large overdue tax debt, which resulted to a
very low rate of tax collection". amna
The minister cited technical reasons for the poor results, such as the
fact that 170 out of the 459 cases were bankrupt companies, 47 pct of the
tax debt referred to third parties and lack of any property belonging
to the debtors. Mavraganis said that finance ministry agencies were
continuing their effort to raise overdue tax debt.
|
