Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-08-29

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Moscovici-Tsakalotos' meeting to focus on debt, surlplus and programme review

[02] Real estate tax notifications available online

[03] Significant increase in migrants and refugees' arrivals on Greek islands

[01] Moscovici-Tsakalotos' meeting to focus on debt, surlplus and programme review

Other issues to be discussed are debt relief, lower primary surplus targets and bad loans settlement.

Meanwhile, the Euro Working Group will convene on Tuesday to prepare the Eurogroup meeting on September 9.

[02] Real estate tax notifications available online

Real estate owners can visit www.gsis.gr for more information.

The tax can be paid in five monthly instalments, with a first payment until September 30 and the last one January 31.

Finance ministry sources told AMNA that in the vast majority of this year's ENFIA notifications citizens were paying the same or less tax compared with 2015. The sources said that 65 pct of real estate owners were called to pay the same or less tax, a 24 pct was burdened with a sum between one cent and 10 euros, a 10 pct were called to pay more than 10 euros and only 4.0 pct of them were burdened with a sum of more than 50 euros. Finally, only 0.3 pct of real estate owners were called to pay a sum more than 1,000 euros.

[03] Significant increase in migrants and refugees' arrivals on Greek islands

358 people arrived on Lesvos from Monday 22 August while 78 arrivals were recorded on Chios and 7 on Samos.

A total of 175 refugees and migrants were rescued in three operations early Monday off the coasts of Mytilene which will be sent to Moria hotspot.

Two more incidents involving 99 people were reported early Monday off the port of Chios.

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