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  1. EU and IMF bailout drafts confirm conditionality as well as differences on primary surplus

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    and pensioners will pay tax. 3) A series of parametric measures generating savings of 1.2 percent of GDP... tax reform (1 percent of GDP), including a lowering of the tax-free threshold to 8,182 (compared

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  2. Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , particularly with respect to supplementary retirement pay, and that a proposal by the Greek side to raise... it did not yet reach an agreement with the creditors. The government wants to set the tax-free threshold

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  3. World Bank sets out savings Greece can make from streamlining welfare benefits
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    increase in the share of households that pay personal income taxes from 63 to 72.7 percent. However... is considerable, but would still leave with a tax-free threshold of 7,273 euros from its current level

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  4. Payment cards up by 3 pct but value of transactions drops by 7 pct in H1 2016

    EconomyBanking

    due to pay within the first half of 2016. The number of transactions per card remained unchanged... of card transactions to have a tax-free threshold in their personal income tax, c) further reduction

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  5. Tsakalotos and Stournaras raise objections to IMF assumptions
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    suggestion for lower tax-free threshold, since more than half of Greek taxpayers do not pay personal

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  6. Athens details fiscal counter-measures, a vital selling point for Tsipras
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    be cut by 25 percent. It is noted that pensioners currently pay 0, 10 or 25 percent of the medicine... and at 10 percent for incomes above the 220,000-euro threshold. The counter-measures agreed between

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  7. Greek population among highest for poverty risk, Eurostat survey shows
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    Society

    to afford to pay bills, adequately warm a home, or take a one week holiday away from home, doubled... income was below their national at-risk-of-poverty threshold, stood at 21.2 percent in Greece, up

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  8. Focus of discussion for lenders moves to debt relief, post-MoU framework
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    to pay back its loans,” said the ESM chief, adding that this system is also applied for the other... surplus target is within reach and whether the reduction of the tax-free threshold lined up for 2020

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  9. The gruelling final straight of Greece's bailout
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    Agora

    warning system. This assesses if a country is in a position to pay back its loans,” said the ESM chief... is on the fiscal side. The Fund continues to believe that the reduction of the tax-free threshold

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  10. Tsakalotos eyes conclusion of review and debt talks, will not dispute pension cuts
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    , it appears Athens is aware that the reductions to retirement pay are not seen purely as a cost-saving... there was a straight swap with the lowering of the tax-free threshold due in 2020, has always seemed

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