By no means accidental, during the visit of the Prime Minister to the Ministry of Finance (Ministry) Yesterday (17.03.2025), and Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Kyriakos Pierrakakis emphasized the battle against her tax evasion.
It is, after all, a tested “recipe for success” by the previous leadership of the Ministry, as with a “weapon” of recovering tax evasion, the government has managed to fill public funds and achieve high primary surpluses, which, for 2024, are expected to close at 2.5% (3%). Hatzidakis, in view of the final elements in April.
The emphasis by the Prime Minister and the new Ministry of Finance was not accidentally given: the government expects not only to continue on the same tax rate but to significantly exacerbate its efforts in 2025.
The goal set by the 2025 budget is particularly high and requires coordination but also to work all. The prediction is that this year, the State will receive tax revenue of € 69.2 billion, ie 2.5 billion euros more than it raised in 2024. amount not negligible if one considers that last year it was a record year in many years of revenue, where it was a record of 2 years.
That is why it is now necessary for the Ministry of Justice with AADE to work on those that have already “built” but also to further expand the use of their new digital tools (Mydata, Digital Shipping Release, Electronic Invoice, Digital Customer, etc.) and will need extensive controls.
Return to citizens
Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his statements during his visit to the Ministry of Finance, heralded that citizens “will benefit from this great national success (tax evasion of tax evasion) and this is something that I believe will begin to see it and see it.” He added that “the permanent additional revenue from tax evasion will return either by increasing public investment or tax cuts”, leaving open interpretations of whether new measures are expected soon.
So far, it is well known that the next package of income to boost income and tax cuts will be announced in September at the TIF, and will most likely include changes in tax scales and a reduction in living presumptions.
Is more tax interventions likely to be made earlier than the TIF? Theoretically, over -rewarding primary surplus levels announced by Kostis Hatzidakis, grows the budgetary space available for interventions, while the benefit of Greece can have from the upcoming EU level agreement for the form and size of the exemption. Therefore, any possibility is likely, since additional interventions do not conflict with fiscal rules.
However, Sources of the Ministry of Finance commenting on newsit.gr, they said that no thought has not yet fallen on the table, as the new minister has just been in charge of duties, but without excluding such a possibility.