An amount of 1.5 billion euros has been secured and forms the financial basis of the announcements expected to announce the prime minister in September at the TIFthe Treasury spokesman Homer Tsapalos assured, according to Ertnews.
“This is the amount secured on the basis of the good run for the budget and the good decrease in tax evasion. Because I recall that this money was not only due to the good run or only because of the escape clause we secured with a good negotiation made by the Minister, Mr. Pierrakakis in the past few months, and through the reduction of further tax evasion, Citizens themselves with anonymous or branded complaints made on the Citizens’ Platform of the Citizens of AADE, “Mr Tsapalos said, speaking about the TIF.
“So this money is and this money will be directed to developmental, not guerrilla logic measures. We do not come to give money to those who shout the most, to put it as popular as possible, so that people can understand it. We are going to give permanently tax cuts and weight relief to those groups, social and economic groups, which raise the greatest burden of the memorandums of previous years, as well as the recovery that the Greek economy has achieved, “he said.
In the middle class, Mr Tsapalos said in the government’s financial staff, as he said, “this is basically the social group that has lifted and lifted the greatest weight and waiting for the hardships of all these years to see them turn and further into their pockets, without their pockets.
Referring to the scenarios processed by the financial staff, he noted that one of the prevailing is to change the direct tax scales.
“If the scales change and say if we are still talking at the scenario level, it all ends a few days before the Prime Minister’s announcement then the employee, the retired, the freelancer will surely see tax relief.
The pensioner, the employee each month is withheld from his salary an amount that goes to AADE and then the tax return is made, the clearance and if he comes out money, money is refunded if he gets a debit he pays more. If they are reduced, if the tax scales are adjusted, then these people will automatically see an increase in income every month because the withholding will be reduced to the substance that these people pay each month. Therefore, we understand that it is very important, if I say again, the financial staff in this recipe for a permanent monthly income increase in all these groups, ”Mr Tsapalos described.
Answering a question, he pointed out that there is no thought of price regulation as there would be a fiscal risk.
“Based on the calculations if this was done, we would have a risk of having fiscal instability. In other words, the state budget could not cope with this reform of this change of our tax regime, “the Treasury spokesman explained.
“As well as no thoughts on VAT change. If the citizen had to choose between VAT change, VAT status and a change in direct tax scales, as I described them before, I think the majority of the citizens would choose the second. Why? Because we are talking about money that will be secured in their pocket.
Whereas if you are going to reduce VAT rates there is a serious risk that any decrease will not pass to the end consumer. To be embarrassed by the intermediate, the intermediary, essentially as it is said in the end, do absolutely nothing and have a hole in the state budget. I don’t think it’s a serious, consistent political proposal to choose this. Again, the change in direct tax scales is much more efficient directly. The citizen sees it in his pockets. But again we are talking at the scenario level, “he added.
As for freelancers, asked if there are thoughts of new adjustment, reform of the evidence, Mr Tsapalos said “what I can say and without going into specific ideas or news or suggestions that have fallen on the table is that in the package that will be announced by the Prime Minister. That is, it can cover a proposal, a announcement by the Prime Minister as a whole of a large part of society and within them the part of freelancers. “
“The freelancers have lifted a great deal of recovery and have experienced many different reforms that these people have back to get to the point today talking about further taxation. The interconnection of POS with cash, the digital work card was not painless reforms for freelancers. We perfectly understand it. Some have suffered, some have difficulty, and we understand this perfectly, and we thank them at the same time for the back they have set to reach the spot today, in a few days from now on talking about further tax cuts. “
Responding to why the Financial Staff excludes a reinstatement of the 13th pension to the State, Mr Tsapalos said characteristically: “The beans are simply not coming out. The state budget cannot withstand the reinstatement of the 13th 14th salary to the State, reinstatement of gifts to retirees. If we calculate all this together, it is an amount of 7-8 billion euros per year, which obviously the budget cannot afford. “
Regarding the issue with the complaints in AADE for tax evasion, which have exceeded 200,000, Mr Tsapalos commented that “it is proven that digital technology is truly an ally of both the taxpayer and the citizens in revealing cases of infringement and improving public administration”.
“So far around 200,000 complaints have been filed through the application of AADE. (…)
What I can tell you with certainty is that hundreds of such or even thousands of other complaints have helped us by AADE executives to detect not only small and very large cases of tax evasion, even circuits, tax evasion, even cases of triangular transactions. They have helped us to reveal substantial cases of lawlessness that were very well camouflaged, but with the help of the citizens they were revealed and we really ask these citizens to continue to apply them, as well as the Mycoast application to continue to use it. Because this application too helps us to expand the legality in public property that is the seaside and the beach, “said Mr Tsapalos.