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Professionals who declare €129 per month

The details of the electronic database used by the National Economy and Finance Ministry to design the new taxation system for professionals and processed by Kathimerini are particularly revealing.

Discrepancy between GDP, stated income

The recovery of pre-crisis levels in Greek GDP terms may now be within sight, but that is not the case for incomes declared to the tax office.

23.10.2023 / 23:35

2024 budget gets on a war footing

Once again, due this time to the situation in the Middle East, the Finance Ministry faces mounting uncertainties a few weeks away from revealing the draft 2024 budget.

16.10.2023 / 08:31

Fewer Greeks own their home

The rate of home ownership in Greece is decreasing. The latest official figures from Eurostat put the figure at 72.8%.

02.10.2023 / 13:02

Buying a home gets harder

Property prices in Greece have returned to pre-crisis levels, but there is little else to remind us of the golden era of the real estate market.

26.09.2023 / 09:52

Single tax rate for freelancers?

Different scenarios for changing the way self-employed professionals are taxed have been put on the table so that they can be fully examined by the end of the year.

27.08.2023 / 17:40

Measures to boost births to top €2.7 bln

This year will be the 12th in a row where deaths will exceed births. The problem has been exacerbated in recent years, with the recent crises.

15.08.2023 / 18:36

Less leeway for handouts this winter

This coming winter, the government will have less leeway to intervene to fix problems such as soaring prices because of more rigid budget surplus obligations.

25.07.2023 / 08:01

Gov’t eyes revenue rise next year

The National Economy and Finance Ministry is preparing the draft budget for 2024 based on a number of pillars, with the aim of submitting it to Parliament in the first week of October. Its target will be an increase in state revenue.

17.07.2023 / 12:57

Greek workforce is shrinking

Greek unemployment returned this May to the level of 10.8%, a similar rate to that of May 2004.

04.07.2023 / 13:35

Raises in state salary system

The Economy Ministry is in a race against time for changes to the civil servants’ salary system to be confirmed in the next few weeks.

20.06.2023 / 09:08

Economy still depends on consumption

The road to changing the country’s development model will be long and difficult.

12.06.2023 / 10:56

One in 10 covers 65% of taxes

Why do most tax revenues in Greece come from indirect taxes? Because the state collects more tax from a 150-euro supermarket receipt than it does annually from 3.2 million households.

05.06.2023 / 12:33

Energy upgrades bottlenecked

Major problems have emerged in the market by a bottleneck in the subsidized property energy upgrade programs.

05.06.2023 / 09:28

Doesn’t Greece have rich people?

Greece has extremely few rich people – if the official declarations of income and property are anything to go by.