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Athens grapples with awkward reduction of tax-free threshold
EconomyProgramme, will, among other issues, focus on plans to reduce the tax-free threshold for personal incomes. In its... of the personal income tax base largely through a reduction in the tax-free threshold. This matter has... percent). The broadening of the tax base meant that the previous tax-free threshold of 9,545 euros
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Mitsotakis attempts to outmanoeuvre Tsipras over lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe pre-legislated reduction of the tax-free threshold. Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis revealed... the cancellation of the lowering of the tax-free threshold for incomes, which is due to kick in from January... could also reach an agreement with the country’s lenders to keep the tax-free threshold where
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With tax-free threshold set for change, income declarations underline need for rethink
EconomyProgramme-free threshold with the aim of securing additional revenues of 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion euros) as of 2019. The targeted savings mean that the tax-free threshold should be reduced close to 5,900... percent), but this would require the tax-free threshold to drop to around 5,000 euros to yield the same
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In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politics-free threshold for incomes next year if he becomes prime minister again. In the latest of his televised evening interviews, the SYRIZA leader committed for the first time not to reduce the threshold... the end of the year. “The tax-free threshold will not be reduced as long as SYRIZA is the government,” he
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Gov't lowers tax-free threshold, prepares for third pillar of measures worth 1 pct of GDP
EconomyProgrammeand most important relates to the tax-free threshold, which was initially lowered to 9,090 euros from its..., following pressure from the institutions, particularly the IMF, for a threshold as low as 8,182 euros..., the tax-free threshold for families with two children is set at 9,090 euros. It remains unchanged
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Glimmer of hope for efforts to negotiate over tax-free threshold, but not primary surplus
EconomyProgrammethe pre-legislated reduction of the tax-free threshold for incomes by European Commission vice... the threshold down from around 8,500 to 5,500 euros, should be made in order to broaden the tax... will help it convince the lenders that the tax-free threshold does not have to be lowered, at least
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Far-right party banned, possibly reducing threshold for election majority
PoliticsGreek Politicsabove 3 pct in the opinion polls. This is the threshold that parties have to overcome in order... it into Parliament, the lower the threshold needed for the winning party to gain an outright majority... of how it may affect the threshold needed for a majority after the second vote, unless EAN experiences
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Tsipras vows to cancel reduction of tax-free threshold as SYRIZA seeks way back
PoliticsGreek Politics-free threshold for incomes, which was due to be adopted next year. Speaking to public broadcaster ERT... that they have also made it clear they do not intend to drop the threshold if they come to power and have... reform before the European Parliament elections. The change to the threshold would have an estimated
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PM insists on 3 pct election threshold, unveils plans to entice diaspora voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsthreshold that parties need to pass to elect MPs in Greece’s national elections. Mitsotakis made... three MPs dedicated to representing them. Mitsotakis’s insistence that “naturally, the threshold... in recent months that the PM might be tempted to raise the threshold due to the proliferation
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Mitsotakis sets 25% threshold as opposition refines electoral strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor his leadership to be questioned. Conversely, he made clear that a result above that threshold would... electoral system. Although ND currently polls closer to 30%, the explicit threshold places internal... indicated in September’s polls, which would reduce the threshold required for a majority
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