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Hardly has been the new system of social contributions implemented and the creditors demanded a new system. A new system of calculations based on gross income. A new system will  give another blow to low-income self-employed, freelancers and farmers. The new system will affect 1.4 million people and will be …

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Santa traditionally arrives in Greece on New Year’s Eve and brings joy to kids and adults alike. This year, Santa is mean and grim and arrived earlier than expected in form of the Greek finance minister. A circular outlining the new social security contributions for self-employed and freelancers was issued …

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It is not a secret that under the bailout agreements, Greece’s self-employed are charged with higher taxes and social security contributions each and every year.  Many, especially from northern Greece,  have moved their business basis to neighboring Bulgaria for obvious reasons: 10% tax instead of 29%, low social security contributions, …

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Freelancers will be obliged to pay double social security contributions reaching  even up to 50% of their income. As of 1. January 2017, freelancers who are also in also in employment contract will have to pay two times social security contributions. Once for their work as employees and once for …

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Everyone who has worked in Greece as self-employed or freelancer has crawled through the dark corridors of OAEE and has experienced the nightmare alive in the maze-like construction, a mixture of Minotaur labyrinth and Monopoly. Especially the small and medium-size entrepreneurs found themselves often in the position to be not …

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The nightmare of tax office has already hit many Greek taxpayers, preferably freelancers and self-employed with low and medium income. With the new tax calculation that abolishes tax free caps, taxes the very first euro with 26% and collects 55% of next year’s taxes in advance, Greece hit a new …

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On the way to the new taxation system, several details have been given to the press in order to do the usual of the last three bailout years: scare the people, test reactions and finally present the ‘worse’ as less bad than the ‘worst’. I mean, I hope it will …

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Greek government will impose heavy taxes to whatever moves, flies, swim or stands. Compensations will undergo sharp cuts as the state’s arm will dig deep into the pockets of unemployed and grab its share. And all this despite, the promises of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that they would be no new taxes – but …

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A new-new-new, the la  Taxation bill is under way as the Greek Finance Ministry “tries to combat tax evasion and injustice”(apparently).  The self-assessment, in power since 2004, will be abolished and the so-called new “objective criteria” will be applied for the taxation of small businesses and freelancers. These will include not only …

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