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Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
PoliticsGreek Politicsof an internal default via the inability to pay wages or pensions, and a “Graccident” via the failure to pay.... This was not defused by Varoufakis’s appearance on a popular TV discussion show in Germany on Sunday night
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Out with the old, in with the old
Agorainto the country. The recent auction for TV broadcasting licences is an example of this tendency..., though, is that the government set no other significant criteria than who was able to pay the highest... was to fail to pay personal contributions to the retailers’ pension fund in 1981, when she
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SYRIZA tries to build on "positive" measures but polls yet to register bounce
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the measures and that extra revenues are expected from the schemes allowing debtors to pay off... full-month’s pay, is a pre-election gimmick. In a speech in Larissa, central Greece, on Wednesday... TV and made public on Wednesday night indicated that support for New Democracy ahead of next Sunday’s
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Greece sets out broad reform plan for lenders' approval
EconomyProgrammestrategic default and inability to pay. The government also pledged to de-criminalise lower income... that they pay the state the market prices for the frequencies used. On public tenders and procurements, Greece... revenues of lower expenditure to result in a fiscally neutral impact.
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
a lower recession for this year at around 1.5 percent vis-à-vis the institutions’ official estimate..., self-employed and firms will be required to pay additional taxes in October following the decision to increase the amount of income tax they must pay in advance. Another key issue for the new government
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Mitsotakis eyes tax cuts to jump-start economy, also seeks unity but not with SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsis spent. The opposition leader argued that the reduction in taxes would also lead to lower evasion... said. “And businessmen will pay their taxes and take care of their workers, making them partners... funds, which includes the majority of debtors, would be allowed to pay as little as 20 euros per
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Greek families burdened by high tax rates
SocietyA study by the Washington-based think tank, the Tax Foundation, has found that Greek families pay... that an average Greek worker without children would pay 8.2 percent of their tax wedge towards... results, the Tax Foundation noted that a higher tax burden on labour generally leads to lower
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Stock taking: Where is the Greek economy now?
Agoraaway to some extent from the pay-as-you-go system that is the dominant pillar in Greece today... that the “problem of high debt” was resolved, because with lower interest rates, Greece could afford more spending and a lower primary surplus to “stimulate development.” But this optimism
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Mitsotakis unveils property tax reduction, searches for pre-election narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsto power. He said that the latest cut means that eight in 10 owners will pay less ENFIA. However, 6 pct will pay more. The total amount saved would reach 350 million this year, said the PM. The total... by Staikouras, total ENFIA revenues for 2022 would be 2.23 billion euros, which is 350 million lower
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first, and rather tepid, televised debate ahead of the September 20 elections is unlikely to have made a significant impact on the contest. The rigid format, which saw the seven party leaders taking part answer questions from journalists on pre-agre...
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