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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-05-14
CONTENTS
[01] Parliament Vice-President: Government can't accept the most harsh
version of measures proposed by the creditors
[02] Government finalizes tax intervention package
[01] Parliament Vice-President: Government can't accept the most harsh
version of measures proposed by the creditors
ANA/MPA---"We are in trouble, on one hand there is the danger of a rift
that will lead to a national tragedy and on the other hand it is the
creditors' package, mostly IMF, which is of unprecedented brutality
that does not comply with SYRIZA's programme and with the people's
mandate," Parliament Vice-President Alexis Mitropoulos on Thursday said
in statements to MEGA TV.
Mitropoulos said he does not see an agreement before mid-June, adding that
a progressive government cannot accept to implement the most harsh and
despicable version of measures on salaries, pensions and taxes proposed
by the creditors.
He admitted that some of the pre-election pledges were possibly excessive
and added that Tsipras will not be able to avoid the 'appeal to the
people" in the future.
[02] Government finalizes tax intervention package
ANA/MPA---With the restart of technical negotiations in the Brussels
Group the Greek government seeks to finalize a package of interventions
in the tax system aimed to boost public revenues without taking any
horizontal measures. In this framework, the government is redefining
the criteria of tax cases to be inspected in priority by the tax
administration in order to strengthen the efficiency of the collection
mechanism.
A government council meeting late on Wednesday examined the first tax
interventions on which there is convergence with the institutions without
reaching any final decisions. At the same time, the Finance ministry
is promoting two changes on tax control: first, focusing on cases with
big tax collection interest and secondly, launching procedures for
identifying non-performing tax debt. Overdue tax debt to the state is
currently around 75 billion euros, of which more than 50 billion euros
are considered to be non-collected.
The government also examined tax interventions such as offering favorable
terms of stating bank deposits held in foreign banks, introducing
a lottery measure as an incentive to collect retail sales receipts,
introducing a single VAT tax factor, obligatory use of credit/debit
cards for transactions over 70 euros in all tourist islands of the
country and imposing a higher tax burden on larger incomes.
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