As a ‘social dividend’ characterized the income From the fight against tax evasion in the two years 2024-2025, the Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis. “The 3.9 billion euros in the last two years has been actually the dividend that is coming to citizens at the moment,” he said today (10.9.25) at the Larissa Radio radio station.
“We try to catch tax evasion every year because it is a dividend of justice to catch tax evasion and improve and give the money back to the world. We did so with these measures. This is the largest tax reform after the transition, ”said Kyriakos Pierrakakis.
We have reduced 80 taxes
“Europe’s rules have now changed,” Kyriakos Pierrakakis said. “Opposition interferes with the surplus with the primary surplus. The difference between the two is debt – what we owe and we have to pay every year. The space we have is specific and we must aim to support as many as we can. “
In the opposition’s suggestions, and in particular Alexis Tsipras’ proposal on patriotic tax, the Minister of National Economy and Finance was clear: “The last time the middle class was over taxed, that is, what we wanted to fight with the move we made now. We have reduced 80 taxes. ” And he said that the tax reform now followed, the first to such a post -transition, is compact and justice.
The 1.76 billion euro limit is inviolable – at 2.5 billion euros in the second year
As for the total cost of the measures, the minister made it clear that “the size of the measures, the 1.76 billion euros, is inviolable, as we would go into an excessive deficit process after this limit”. However, he clarified that “in the first year the measures are making $ 1.76 billion, while in the second year the measures announced will cost 2.5 billion euros”.
The tax exemption concerns all families with a different way of targeting young and older
Explaining the rationale for the measures, the minister said: “We sum up measures, we sum up moves with the aim of creating a supportive environment so that a family can remove weights on it if it has 2 and 3 or 4 children. The tax exemption of the measures we announced is all families. It just changes the way we tax. Why do we say it is a reform? After decades in Greece, the way in which taxation is made is changed. That is to say, how many children each family has. “
The economy the great opportunity of the country
“I would tell you that the economy is the great opportunity of the country. The country has been a compressed spring over the years. See a little bit what happened in the difficult years. Once Greece … let’s make a comparison. Prior to the financial crisis, when the eastern countries in the euro were entering, Greece had twice the GDP per capita from the Czech Republic. That is, the Greek citizen was doubly rich by the Czech citizen in 2004. Today we are talking, last year, with last year, the Czech Republic was 30% richest per citizen than Greece. “
The time of self -esteem is over – we are in the age of improvement
“Step by step, floor-floor we will build the country’s new building. There are opportunities, I would tell you that there are huge. That is, I see it in foreign investment, I speak it with foreign investors, I see it in Greek entrepreneurs, who are starting to export more. Investments in our economy are increasing. We are not yet where we can. So the question is how we get where we want. We will get to hard work, with the only way available to get somewhere, and we will step on a plan by plan, trying to get better every day, because there will be mistakes on the way-the time of complacency is over-we are in the time of improvement and to improve every day.