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With tax-free threshold set for change, income declarations underline need for rethink
EconomyProgramme-free threshold with the aim of securing additional revenues of 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion euros) as of 2019. The targeted savings mean that the tax-free threshold should be reduced close to 5,900... percent), but this would require the tax-free threshold to drop to around 5,000 euros to yield the same
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Mitsotakis attempts to outmanoeuvre Tsipras over lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe pre-legislated reduction of the tax-free threshold. Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis revealed... the cancellation of the lowering of the tax-free threshold for incomes, which is due to kick in from January... could also reach an agreement with the country’s lenders to keep the tax-free threshold where
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoraor to offer them unattainable promises in a bid to mobilise support. If we think back to the years... the lenders’ (second) programme. Unable to target the creditors, the conservative leader turned his fire... as well as a 1,000-euro increase in the tax-free threshold for each child born into a household
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Promises, promises
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Agorahe did pledge to hire 1,500 police officers immediately and not to fire any of the serving civil.... That’s not accurate either. He pledged, for instance, a 1,000-euro increase in the tax-free... to Greek families. Also, fearing that Alexis Tsipras’s last-minute bid to win votes for SYRIZA by paying
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Fire fallout casts doubt on Tsipras’s post-MoU strategy
PoliticsGreek Politics, although no opinion polls have been published since the fire on July 23 to give an indication of how... handled the blaze is focused largely on whether the fire service acted quickly enough, if an evacuation... measures it has announced for the victims of the fire, ranging from lump-sum payments to jobs
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Mati fire investigation puts spotlight on authorities and government
PoliticsGreek Politics, the government has sought to highlight the role of illegal construction in the fire-stricken area northeast... of the fire service and Civil Protection Authority to coordinate its efforts in terms of moving people away from the danger area and containing the fire. In a radio interview on Thursday, New Democracy’s
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The nightmare of our choice
Agoraabout the cause of the fire that broke out after the passenger train collided with the freight train... explanation, the cause of this fire has become the subject of intense speculation. The victims’ families... track. A year later, the Greek PM doubled down and spoke of “conspiracy theories” around the fire
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In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politics-free threshold for incomes next year if he becomes prime minister again. In the latest of his... the end of the year. “The tax-free threshold will not be reduced as long as SYRIZA is the government,” he... among pensioners, the reduction to the tax-free threshold is also aimed at generating an extra 1
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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agoraword: Macedonia. Their concerns (mainly that this word not be used by Greece’s northern neighbour... cities, where they are free to say or chant whatever they want. It would also be interesting to go back... at the July NATO summit to make another bid to join the military alliance. In 2008, Athens exercised its
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Greece targets seat on UN Security Council as North Macedonia row rumbles on
PoliticsForeign PolicyGerapetritis is in New York to promote the country’s bid and is participating in supporting events ahead... Antonio Guterres. The meeting focused on Greece’s bid for the non-permanent seat at the Security Council..." – almost 150 commitments for its support, both formal and informal. But for Athens the main bid
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