Tag Archives: solidarity tax

I suppose, the majority of Greeks spent the 3-days break with their television set off. That’s why, they are still alive on Monday, January the 4th. Had they turned their TVs son, they would had for sure suffered brain strokes, heart collapses and breath halting due to the tsunami of …

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It’s a common knowledge that nothing is more permanent than the temporary. And so, the solidarity levy and the trade fee, that is the extraordinary taxes imposed by the Troika will most likely be collected also after 2015. Greek media report that the Greek government and the country’s lenders representatives …

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While even EU politicians have repeatedly claim that Greeks cannot afford more taxes, the EU technocrats with the blessing of those EU politicians came to the conclusion that Greeks will have to pay the so-called ’emergency taxes’ also for the next years. In the latest European Commision report on Greece issued on Monday, …

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Thousands of Greek jobless will have to pay ‘solidarity tax” as the law provides that even if they have worked one single day during the current year, they cannot be considered as ‘jobless’ for the genius minds of the national Finance Ministry. According to daily Eleftherotypia, the jobless will have to pay the so-called …

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The boldness of the Greek state seems to know no limits. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos announced that the solidarity tax, i.e. the additional tax to already taxed incomes, will be collected via the monthly salaries and pensions before the taxpayer gets even 1 euro in his pockets! According to FinMin, …

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That was high time! That elected members of this debt-ridden country put also their hand deeper in their pockets as citizens do since one year. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos announced during a press conference, that a 5% -special-contribution will be applied to lawmakers, elected municipality officials and other high ranking …

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Unbelievable! This government doesn’t get it! It is again the low incomes that will pay the bills of the huge debt! According to latest information, the special solidarity tax will be contributed by the low incomers. During the session of the Economics Committee at the Parliament, Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou …

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