The sanitization of the real estate market and the prevention of the gray economy in construction have been sacrificed to the growing problem of housing and the need to increase investments – at least for the next two years.
When a law abolishing the Workers’ Housing Organization was passed in 2012 as part of a package of stringent austerity measures, Greece gave up the last tool of state intervention in the real estate market. So long as the rate of homeownership remained high, the recession continued to suppress property prices […]
For the first time since 2018, the revenue that the public coffers stand to collect this year from the presumption of taxpayers’ incomes, based on their various assets (known in Greek as “tekmiria”), will fall below 5 billion euros.
Reducing the ratio of debt-to-gross domestic product at the fastest rate in Europe, achieving higher positions in the rating agencies’ scales and further reducing the cost of servicing the country’s borrowing, are the three main objectives.
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.
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.
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.