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  1. The measures Greece is proposing to secure troika's return

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    measures include: 1) Increase in the VAT rate for hotels to 13 percent from 6.5 percent..., with yearly cost savings seen at 82 to 123 million 3) Increase of the VAT revenues through... more in VAT revenues. The government has also proposed some changes to the pension system, which

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  2. Greek travel receipts continued upward course in October, rising by 4.6 pct
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    fiscal gap of 2.5 billion - to double the hotel VAT rate to 13 percent, aligning... in the VAT rate would bring additional direct VAT revenues of at least 350 million euros, whilst

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  3. Primary budget surplus 923 mln short of target in Jan as revenues fall by 18.4 pct

    Economy

    reflects weak income tax and revenues from VAT. In particular, income tax plummeted 47.5 percent to 519 million euros, 479 million short of target, while VAT dropped 16.3 percent to 1.33 billion, 321 million lower than target. The revenue shortfall stems from the extension of the VAT payment until

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  4. Here's why Greece's fiscal difficulties will dominate the agenda

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    lower income tax and VAT revenues. The Finance Ministry (MoF) attributed the bulk of the slippage to the deadline for the VAT payment being extended until the end of February by the previous government... indicate that the revenue gap remained broadly unchanged in February, implying that VAT payment

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  5. A breakdown of the fiscal and structural reforms Greece hopes will unlock funding

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    audits on bank transfers abroad (725 million euros), fight against VAT fraud (350 million), public...), a Portuguese-style VAT lottery scheme (270 million), tackling fuel and tobacco smuggling (250 million... deficit clause. It does not plan to follow the previous government’s pledge to increase VAT rates

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  6. Newsletter 23 - 17/04/2015

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    perplexing that he is at the same time hopeful that common ground can be found soon. Two (VAT rises... to believe that the situation would be any different for Tsipras. He might be able to get away with VAT rises... and an increase in VAT on Greek islands. The coalition, however, wants to introduce new measures

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  7. Greece sees deal by June 5 but size of gaps tells different story
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    . It also sees convergence on the planned VAT overhaul. However, the two sides are still said to be 1..., who told MNI that Greece has to find another 1.8 billion euros from changes to VAT this year... VAT brackets there will be (Greece wants three and its lenders two), let alone what the new rates

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  8. Brussels talks inconclusive, Tsipras has tough sell at home if deal reached
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    defeat on changes to VAT rates. Athens had wanted to minimise the impact of changes, keeping three.... The other two brackets are 13 and 23. The change in VAT will be the biggest single revenue raiser from... would not accept an increase of 10 percentage points in the VAT on electricity. The other specific

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  9. The key points from Greece's proposal to lenders

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    in 2016 (excluding VAT) incorporate: 1) Change of the VAT rates from the current level of 6.5, 13... in an effort to increase VAT and income collection. 3) Increase in the solidarity levy rates to 2% (from

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  10. Greece and lenders fail to bridge their differences in Brussels

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    a change in the VAT rates (6, 11 and 23 percent) with estimated additional revenues of around 1 billion... stemmed from an upward revision of VAT revenues to 1.3-1.4 billion by increasing the low rate to 6.5... of the institutions’ demand for incremental revenues of 1.8 billion (1 percent of GDP) from VAT changes

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