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Pension reform wrangle prompts Greece to consider going own way on contributions rise
EconomyProgrammepensions, which could lead to reductions of up to 30 percent in some auxiliary retirement pay... reduction for pensions above a specific threshold, probably higher than 1,000 euros. The Greek authorities... not horizontally but above a specific threshold. Other complicated issues in the negotiations
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Tsipras gets full support in pension and income tax vote, moves on to Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks or families with no children. This means taxpayers with two children will pay 100 euros extra... feet on the night of the ballot. A late change to the tax-free threshold, which meant the government.... The amendment submitted on Saturday means that the initial tax-free threshold of 9,090 euros
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Greece's taxing challenges
AgoraAs September came to a close, millions of Greek taxpayers scrambled to meet the deadline to pay... much acrimony with the creditors and opposition from domestic rent seekers, the tax-free threshold... half of taxpayers to avoid exceeding the threshold, in particular farmers, fixed-term contract
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Newsletter 99 - 09/12/2016
retirement pay is lower than 850 euros. The package presented by Tsipras means that around 60 percent... the 3 percent threshold for Parliament. Last week, a University of Macedonia poll for Skai TV... for 2018 and beyond. The IMF called for additional fiscal measures, such as lowering the tax-free threshold
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After holiday hiatus, Athens tries to get review moving again
EconomyProgrammeof households that would pay taxes on wage, agricultural, self-employment and pension incomes would... considered by the government includes the reduction of the current tax-free threshold, which stands... income tax. This threshold corresponds to a tax credit of 1,900 euros for incomes below 20,000 euros
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Pensions main source of finance for half of households as income falls again
Society. The report noted that the measure allowing citizens pay their overdue taxes in 100 instalments has... that the reduction in the relative poverty threshold for Greece by Eurostat from 7,178 in 2010 to 4,512 in 2015 is an “indication of the collapse of the middle incomes”. “If the 2010 poverty threshold is taken
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Labour reforms, fiscal measures loom largest as Athens resumes talks with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politics. Tsipras made it clear on Friday that his government feels this is an issue that is beyond the pay... in the threshold for collective dismissals (currently at 5 percent of the workforce per month... in the tax-free threshold for personal income. The institutions are said to have proposed
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Compromise proposal on table ahead of Friday's Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammelast May, which will result in lower retirement pay for almost all pensioners. The government has... in 2019 and a reduction in the tax-free threshold yielding another 1 percent of GDP in 2020. This appears... percent. Tax reforms include a reduction in the tax-free threshold from its current level of 8,636
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Coalition hails multi-bill as start of clean break, opposition sees more of the same
PoliticsGreek Politicsto pay a month’s salary in tax. New Democracy also highlighted the high primary surpluses that Greece... trying to soften the blow from the pension cuts and the lowering of the tax-free threshold over... threshold, which will start to be implemented six months from now – in other words after the supposed
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
, but the decision will likely stay on hold under November. pay, boosting consumption. “In our view... then reducing it to 11 percent and a 1,000-euro increase in the tax-free threshold per child..., with the government and banks looking into lowering the value threshold to 150,000 euros. While the economic crisis
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