A Greek taxpayer almost suffered a heart attack seeing the tax office demanding 825 euro for the annual income of just 4,200 euro. 20.24% tax for income that was tax-free until last year and was supposed to have a tax reduction with the new system? A mistake from the side of the tax office? Not really…
Because according to the new tax system, occasional workers and those benefiting from subsidized works for jobless should be taxed as self-employed and not as employees, that is with a lower tax rate. KTG reported about here.
After the general outcry in April, the General Secretariat of Public Revenues proceeded to some changes to relief the low incomers from the heavy tax burden.
But the changes were made on May 16th, while some tax declarations were cleared by the tax office before that date.
The case of the example above is not isolated. Greek media report of hundreds of such cases and of General Secretary Haris Theocharis to assure via his Twitter account: “We’ll see. The issue will be solved. Don’t worry!”
I suppose Theocharis statement was placed under #phew 🙂
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