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  1. Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018

    Newsletters

    that cutting pensions now would also be damaging for the economic recovery as it would take money away from... that cutting pension spending by 1 percent of GDP from January, a few months before the general... for the self-employed, cutting the VAT rate in the food service sector from 24 to 13 percent before

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  2. Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality

    EconomyFeatures

    of a compulsory leg and a conditional one. Greece has committed in advance to cutting the personal... of expansionary counter-measures of equal value. These measures consisted of cutting the base tax rate... growth with business-friendly policies, but also plans to raise 2 billion euros from cost-cutting

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  3. What is the state of play with Greek banks?

    Economy

    , other cost cutting initiatives, lower funding cost and disposal of non-core assets will also... on net interest income in the next quarters. Cost cutting is the second positive factor on the pre

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  4. Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016

    Newsletters

    . The government strongly insists on increasing revenues rather than cutting costs (i.e. pensions... of preferences is a near impossible task. It is made more complicated by the fact that the IMF sees cutting

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  5. Newsletter 108 - 24/02/2017

    Newsletters

    percent reduction in the ENFIA property tax, cutting VAT on electricity bills from 13 to 6 percent..., may be lowered below the 6,000-euros mark, entailing cutting the tax credit down to 1,300 euros

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  6. Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    Agora

    , cutting private wages would have increased income inequality across the society. However, private... translate into lower labour costs in 2011, Greece’s lenders wanted to accelerate the reduction by cutting

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  7. Focus turns to first post-MoU visit by creditors and talks on pension cuts
    Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    EconomyProgramme

    that cutting pension expenditure by 1 percent of GDP is not necessary in fiscal or structural terms... cutting pensions next year, this could impact on the tax cuts and spending increases the government

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  8. Mitsotakis eyes tax cuts to jump-start economy, also seeks unity but not with SYRIZA
    Photo via @kmitsotakis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    tax for the self-employed, cutting the VAT rate in the food service sector from 24 to 13 percent... that the fiscal space for his measures would be created by cutting spending in the public sector largely

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  9. Council of Europe report warns over austerity-inflamed inequality in education
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    Society

    as a cost-cutting exercise. This led to students having to travel greater distances in order to access... of education in Greece was attributed in part to austerity measures which have led to the cutting of certain

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  10. What Greece imports and why
    Photo by Gerasimos Domenikos/Fosphotos

    EconomyFeatures

    with or drastically cutting back on food imports is not straightforward for a country that would otherwise... trade deficit is more likely going to involve ramping up exports rather than cutting back exports

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