The alleviation of the poverty and the housing is the goal of the interventions announced yesterday (22.4.2025) due to budget overrementation, the Deputy Prime Minister said, among other things. Kostis Hatzidakis In today’s interviews (23.4.2025) on SKAI radio and television.
“In September, interventions will be announced to reduce taxation mainly for the middle class and consistent taxpayers. The announcements made yesterday are mainly aimed at alleviating the housing problem and poverty in specific population groups such as pensioners and disabled. We have to look at all society and, on the basis of the course of the economy and the arrest of tax evasion, to make further tax relief, “Kostis Hatzidakis also said.
“We did not discover any ‘money’. The interventions announced are the result of the government’s work in recent years. The development of the economy, the systematic effort to limit tax evasion that has been more visible in modern political history over the last two years. And the increase in revenue from insurance contributions despite the reduction of rates, due to the implementation of the digital work card that revealed black and indicated work, “he said.
He stressed that yesterday’s announcements were based on the fact that the outcome of the 2024 budget was better than what the government was expecting. “It’s a matter for which I feel personally satisfying because with my partners at the Ministry of Finance we have been – in accordance with criticism – to achieve the best fiscal outcome since Eurostat is counting.
This also sends a message to markets and investors. It contributes to continuous upgrades, protects the economy in a period of international turmoil due to duties and allows us, despite the strict fiscal rules of the EU, to initiates initiatives with a strong social sign, “he said.
In particular with housing policy, the Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that the initiative package applied has a budget of € 6.7 billion and includes more than 40 actions to increase the offer, which takes time to mature as well as to strengthen renters, which is an immediate performance measure.
Specifically for the initiative announced yesterday to subsidize tenants with a rent a year, Mr. Hatzidakis noted: “The connection to the declared rents will also have the side benefit of the taxpayer disclosure. But even if that is not the case, there will be a alleviation of the problem of tenants. “
Initiatives to increase the supply of the housing market include, inter alia, the utilization of public real estate belonging to various bodies (ERDA, Ministry of Defense, Rural Development and Food) by activating social consideration, pressure on banks for the disposal of real estate ( saturated areas.
In addition, tax exemptions, interest -free loans and residential renovation and tax -free real estate income available in long -term leases instead of short -term.
“We announced yesterday’s social measures. I do not claim that these interventions have solved the problems. Tax measures will follow in September with a holistic intervention in the context of the resistance of the economy, “the deputy prime minister concluded.