The Ministry of National Economy and Finance denies, answering a journalist’s question to the TIF for him VATallegations of referring the country to the European Court of Justice.
The Ministry of National Economy and Finance Issued on Sunday night (07.09.2025) informal update to clarify the facts Asked by a journalist’s question at the Prime Minister’s press conference, Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the 89th TIF. The question concerned VAT on food and medicines, as well as European instructions governing tax policy.
«The relevant directive enables the possibility of which products we have in reduced and which in high VAT and not the country’s obligation“, Sources from the Ministry of National Economy and Finance in terms of a journalist’s question at the Prime Minister’s press conference at the TIF for the non -harmonization of the government with a European directive on the reduction or even of VAT in food and medicines and increasing VAT for VAT for small VAT. “Warns Greece’s referral to the European Court of Justice”.
They note that this ‘Obviously not the case’ and they add that “Tax policy within European framework is a dominant possibility of Member States”.
And they conclude that “the provisions of compulsory application of the relevant directive were incorporated with the Customs Code voted in July And so the process of warning letter moved by the committee will not continue. Greece already has a reduced VAT in many more categories than most European countries. “