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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
. It is understood that the key pending issue relates to the tax-free threshold, with the government... the government’s final decision will be on the key issue of the tax-free threshold, with the latest
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Coalition's proposal for PR electoral system unlikely to clinch supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politics· Maintaining the 3 percent threshold for parties to enter Parliament The abolition (rather than a reduction... it would also not vote for the bill because it maintains the 3 percent of GDP threshold
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Coalition tweaks draft electoral law in hope of clinching supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politicspercent threshold for parties entering Parliament. By doing this, the government hopes to secure... the 3 percent threshold remaining in place. If the coalition can get more than 200 votes
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
changes to the draft law before Friday’s vote. Two areas that he singled out are the threshold... a reluctance to reduce the threshold but said that it might consider lowering it to 2.5 percent. Reports
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Tsipras eyes connection with voters through changes to constitution, electoral system
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the 3 percent threshold for party’s entering Parliament and allowing Greeks abroad to vote. The prime minister said he is willing to discuss both issues, although he does not envisage the threshold
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Programme talks on fiscal issues open wide range of concerns
EconomyProgrammethat the issue of lowering the tax-free threshold to 5,000 euros (from 8,636 euros currently.... However, the Greek side has not accepted this proposal noting that the level of the tax-free threshold
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Some progress in first round of talks but most second review issues remain unresolved
EconomyProgrammeof the tax-free threshold to 5,000 euros (from 8,636 euros currently), as was suggested by the World Bank, to fund the GMI. The Greek side rejected this idea, stressing that the tax-free threshold was agreed
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
-free threshold and pensions to meet a fiscal target is set at 3.5 percent of GDP in 2018...-free threshold as well as pension cuts, according to two senior IMF figures. In a blogpost, the fund
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IMF sets out its stall as review deliberations resume in Athens
EconomyProgrammeis the most appropriate for Greece. They called for a sharp reduction in the tax-free threshold... percent in the eurozone. The tax-free threshold stands at 8,750 euros in Greece and is higher than
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Bill aims to encourage more electronic transactions in Greece
EconomyMacroeconomy. If an individual taxpayer does meet the minimum expense threshold via the use of electronic payments, the amount resulting from the difference between the actual expenses and the minimum threshold would be taxed
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