“The TIF is the continuation of a route that started in 2019 and is now yielding fruit”
Prime Minister’s announcements, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in the context of Thessaloniki International Exhibition Specialized by the Minister of State, Akis Skrtsosin an interview with SKAI television station, giving, at the same time, the political stigma of the government.
Introduction, “The TIF is the continuation of a route that started in 2019 and is now yielding fruit,” the Minister of State noted and described the prime minister’s announcements “very important for two reasons:
First, because we return a very important development dividend that boosts middle class income and the most vulnerable fellow citizens, young people, residents of the region, mountainous and island communities, and this is done within the fiscal potential and obligations of the country.. That is, without charging younger generations, without creating deficits, without exposing the country at risk of surveillance, as we have lived in the past.
And at the same time it is achieved by dealing with the long, timeless, structural problem of the economy: tax evasion, the economy. “
As he explained, then that ‘The largest package of tax reforms in income tax’ It results in “returning from half to two wages to each employee, this increases the disposable income”.
“This is in part – not the whole – and the question of accuracy. When we have more money in the pocket we can make more options. We have more financial opportunities. Accuracy is not only treated with it. Interventions are needed in the way markets work, and such interventions have been made. Both the energy market and the banking market and the insurance market and the ferry market. We are fighting, that is, on all fronts, “he said.
Especially on the housing issue “The measures announced now are not the only ones. A few months ago, in May, another income and families support package was announced, specifically targeting the housing issue. We return a rent to twelve from this November to 80% of tenants. About 1 million citizens renting houses will get a rent back. It is not the only measure, there are also interventions in student rents where we give up to 2,500 euros. If a student with his or her colleague (they take) about 5,000 euros a year to rent to rent a home outside the permanent place of residence. There are interventions on the housing issue, which is summed up at € 6.5 billion. Over 44 meters, “Mr Skertsos said. As he said, “the measures have resulted in”, bringing the example of “My Home 1” and “My Home 2” programs. They have beneficiaries of 30,000 households, in total. “Of these, 20,000 have used the tool, they have bought their first home. This means that thanks to the help of the state they pay a lower mortgage dose than they paid as a rent. There are another 10,000 loans left, which are currently available to be used. The housing is a huge issue, it’s international, it’s not just a national problem. At the moment in all the big cities of the world there is a strong housing issue, there is a limited supply of real estate in terms of demand. This raises prices, “the minister argued, linking it to the measures announced by the prime minister on Saturday,” when we say we are reset to ENFIA for the first residence in the villages “, beyond the obvious profit, decentralization, that is,” it has one more effect “.
On the subject of VATMr Skertsos’ first observation was that “we must have increased sensitivity specifically to acrimonious Greece. There was a policy applied to five islands, which had received the highest burdens of the immigration-refugee issue. ” Now, however, it was decided to extend the measure “to the rest of the islands of the northern, southern and eastern Aegean, in the context of the potential of European law. It is not allowed to reduce VAT by 30% of VAT to be applied to other parts of the country, “he said, however, insisting that” in terms of VAT in particular, this government has reduced it to many categories of goods and services: transport, baby products, agricultural products, etc. “
In the opposition’s objections that the country is threatened with a reference to the European Court of Justice for the non -implementation of a Community Directive on VAT, he replied that it was “a fake carbin and was already denied by the Treasury yesterday. I think today in the presentation (ed. Of the measures) that will be made by the leadership of the ministry, it will be further clarified. ” Moreover, “there is no obligation for a country, in the context of VAT Community law, to submit some product category to low or zero tax rate. Is possible or option. It is national policy, national legislation is to subject VAT and there is no reason to refer the country to the European Court of Justice, “he added.
Subsequently, and changing the subject, the minister suggested that the citizens see the big picture: “At the moment, large European countries and economies are unobtrusive. They have no political stability, they face a sharp budgetary problem. Countries such as France, Italy are essentially surveillance, they are obliged to reduce spending and increase taxes. We, thanks to political stability since 2019 and thanks to a reformist government and politics that are being implemented, we achieve budgetary surpluses, we return them with brave measures to society but to the extent we can without ending the financial balance and responsibility we need to show. We note twice as much growth rates from the rest of Europe. We reduce public debt and, finally, we are implementing policies for the first time that have a genea sign, we need to support young people more. “
Mr Skertsos then acknowledged that “everyday life is relentless and difficult for all”, but, as he added, “we apply a policy aimed at a Greece with everyone, for everyone. We don’t leave anyone out. The reform tax package announced yesterday is 4 million taxpayers. It concerns new, retirees, businesses and freelancers, families, new families, etc. “
At this point, responding to a criticism of the “TIF basket”, he opposed that the reduction in the tax scale “concerns both freelancers and farmers. The intermediate new rental ratio also concerns freelancers. Combined all these measures leave something, from satisfactory to important, in the pocket. Multipurpose, three -year -olds, four will have from one to two wages, net, in their pocket each year. “
To the question of whether the government has various interests against it, he stressed that “the government is implementing a reform program that wants to achieve one thing: to change Greece and make it a fairer society. Institutions will operate, we will have a rule of law instead of a state of lawlessness, we will operate in favor of many and not the few, the oligarchs. We fight this battle. We are fighting for a more competitive Greece, more opportunities, better perspective. ” In the end, “there are interests with a share of responsibility for the country’s bankruptcy in the previous decade. We are against all of them. We are in the middle class, with people who wake up in the morning to get out of the day and we want to make their own lives easier, better, with more opportunities for them and their children. The uncertainty that young people will live worse than previous generations must leave. We are working for this for Greece to become a better country for the next generation. “
“Interests that have accumulated power have one purpose: to maintain this power they have. We need to redistribute power and wealth in favor of many. This is also working on this package (measures) announced on it, “the Minister of State concluded.