His return Kyriakou Mitsotakis After the short Easter respite brought another surprise, after his deposit marine spatial planning In the middle of the Holy Week. In another Agenda Control Recovery Movement, the announced the New Citizen Support Framework who stay in rent, students, but also retirees and people with disabilities as a product of his “explosive” course surplus For 2024, with the Government thus scope for additional costs and a “social” dividend. Or else, “the government feels, cares for and constantly strives for a better life, seeking the success of the numbers to become the prosperity of many,” as he put it in yesterday’s profession The Prime Minister.
According to government officials, the measures announced will benefit about 2.7 million citizenswho have received from the good run the economy And the much better performance of the effort to combat tax evasion. There is, of course, a political logic behind the prime ministerial announcements, as protothema.gr had written in time. More specifically, Mr Mitsotakis has been telling his interlocutors for weeks that the government is looking for Out of the box solutions to deal with her housing crisisgiven that many citizens could not get over. Among them are many young people to 40 years old or students, which is evident in the polls in possession of the Maximus Palace. In this age group, ND losses are disproportionate to the losses in other social groups.
As for them pensionersthey are a consistent ND audience, but they are also faced with the extremely high cost of living. Pensioners at the same time receive 12 pensions, without gifts, and are a pillar of support for the family budget. At the same time, many have not seen increases due to the personal difference of the Katrougalos law that has not been eliminated for everyone. In this sense, their support was critical to the government.
Why now?
Government executives responded to the accusation of early announcements (instead of its usual forum TIF), saying that the fiscal space is first created and then distributed in a social dividend, but without the disagreement of fiscal stability. According to government officials, according to the new EU’s fiscal rules, the additional surplus could be used this year, so the resolution of permanent measures in favor of the critical social groups mentioned above.
At the same time, government sources report that the overpayment of revenue It is not accidental, but the result of implementing specific policies. According to the same information, the Prime Minister was consulted with the announcement with the Vice President of the Government. Kostis Hatzidakiswho has insisted on the fight against tax evasion, but also with the new “Tsar” of the economy, Kyriakos Pierrakakiswho departed in the afternoon for the IMF spring meeting with the good budget “mandate” in his luggage.
Appointment at TIF
The movements have supported the citizens, however, will not stop here, as Kyriakos Mitsotakis makes an appointment to the TIF for the announcements to be implemented by 2026. In Thessaloniki, announcements should be expected for them. direct tax ratesas a comprehensive adjustment of the scale of the rates may be examined, possibly by establishing some intermediates (eg between 9% to 10,000 euros and 22% for the first euro afterwards). Government officials also appreciate that the freelancers who were “hurt” by the tax presumption will have received, depending on the course of the economy. The same sources, however, are exorcising the logic of the money, saying that these are not benefits and benefits, but to return the sacrifices of society on the basis of the good course of the economy and the improvement of all its indicators.