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  1. Tsipras keeps IMF waiting, turns focus to MPs and opposition
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    shortly before the news broke that the government had asked not to pay the International Monetary... at the end of June. Like the prime minister’s speech on Friday afternoon, the decision not to pay the IMF... and minister have been advocating for the last few weeks that the government should not pay the IMF

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  2. Newsletter 31 - 19/06/2015

    Newsletters

    for ECB funding – while banks also pay a fee to the Greek state corresponding to 1.1 percent... billion euros it has to pay to the International Monetary Fund at the end of the month. Revenues... years. Before the crisis began, more than 70 percent of the defence budget was used to pay staff

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  3. What next for Greece's revenues and spending?

    Agora

    a positive surprise since a number of taxpayers preferred to pay their taxes in advance to lower... conditions, the expenditure will revert to the levels of budget targets.” The government has to pay... on July 13 and July 27. Starting from July 28, the state is also due to pay the monthly pensions

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  4. More than half of Greek households rely mainly on pensions

    Society

    to pay an extraordinary bill or cost of 500 euros. Over half (52.9 percent) said they would only... in their tax payments, while only 16.4 percent of tax debtors had benefitted from the arrangement to pay...) believe they will be unable to pay their tax bills, with almost 15 percent saying they cannot afford

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  5. Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016

    Newsletters

    in the excise tax on fuel and natural gas, a rise in the levy on mobile telephony and pay TV, higher taxation... intends to pay state arrears of 7 billion euros to the private sector by the end of the year... it. Maybe this is the price Greece has to pay to ensure that its citizens’ democratic right

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  6. Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
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    Agora

    would need more loans and/or easier debt terms to pay interest and principal on its old loans... is to start by finding out how big a surplus is needed to pay off all the debt, the second point is to find... economic problems and are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy also pay back their borrowings

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  7. Survey highlights strain on mental health in Greece amid financial pressure
    By Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    Society

    because they could not pay for it. In 2016, only one in four Greeks who needed primary healthcare.... At the same time, Greeks on average pay 21.10 euros a month out of their own pockets to pay

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  8. Athens grapples with awkward reduction of tax-free threshold
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    EconomyProgramme

    that pay taxes on wages, or income from agriculture, self-employment and pensions to 72.7 percent...). This would mean that workers with a monthly salary above 420 euros would pay income tax, while the existing... on the large number of low-income wage-earners that would have to pay income tax for the first time

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  9. Since 2010, declared income has plummeted but tax due has risen
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    EconomyFeatures

    over the past few years. Specifically, more than one quarter (26.3 percent) of taxpayers did not pay... not pay any personal income tax in 2016, would have to pay tax as of 2019, assuming that their declared

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  10. Getting to the church on time
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    Agora

    and that, in recognition of this, the government will pay priests’ wages as a form of recompense... church does not pay its way), especially if their wages can eventually be covered by the commercial.... Mitsotakis opposes the appointments but insists taxpayers should continue to pay priests salaries

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