The government is completely consistent with its pre-election commitment to reduce ENFIA, stressed in Parliament the Minister of Finance, Christos Staikouras. “We were committed to (reduction) 30% and we reach 35%. There can be no other intervention in ENFIA. Already, we are completely consistent with what we had said before the elections and in fact, at a higher rate,” said Finance Minister Christos Staikouras. speaking on the second day of the elaboration of the bill for the modernization of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission by the competent parliamentary committee.
The provisions of the bill, which includes regulations for vulnerable debtors, the new reduced ENFIA, and excise tax on systematic distillers and two-day producers, were expressed by the representatives of stakeholders.
The president of the Economic Chamber of Greece, Kon. Kollias said the bill upgrades and modernizes the operation of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, “in particular, where in recent years there have been setbacks and impunity, which have tarnished the country’s image of potential investors.” In order to activate the program for the protection of the first home of vulnerable households, he said that the regulation is becoming particularly important today, as price increases have limited the disposable income of households. However, he reiterated the AIF’s view that “vulnerable households should be given the opportunity to regain ownership of their home after a reasonable period of time”. As for ENFIA, he proposed the exemption of legal entities from the additional ENFIA, due to energy and economic prospects, as well as the exemption or reduction of ENFIA for unemployed or low-income people with real estate under 100 thousand euros, which does not bring them income .
The chairman of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Vasiliki Rizeakou, said that the bill is in the right direction. He demanded, however, that the training and modification of the EC body be done by her and not by ministerial decision. On the part of the employees in the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, the President Ms. Maria Margaritsanaki said that the proposed provisions do not solve “the huge and chronic problems caused by both the memorandum regulations and the indifference of the last leadership of the Ministry of Finance”.
The president of the Panhellenic Federation of Property Owners, Str. Paradias. As he said, there will be significant relief for taxpayers with already low tax liabilities, but at the same time, there will be charges of unknown amount for those owners who own real estate in areas where fair values ​​have increased significantly or who have joined the fairing system for the first time or holding even indivisible shares or individual rights in rem on real estate with a total objective value of more than 300 thousand euros.
Subsequently, the president of the Federation of Abyssinians and Viticulture Growers of Greece, V. Papagrigoriou said that the bill results in a tax deduction for small distillers of 85%, ie 10% “more than what we asked for”. However, he attributed responsibilities to the competent services that did not call the Federation, when they submitted a technical file to the EU in 2017, with the result that “certain conditions are set, (based on which) we can not produce tsipouro and tsikoudia. It excludes us”. D. Apostolakis, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Distillers of Greek Wine Products, said – among other things – that “with the incorporation in the Greek legislation of Directive 2020/1151 and with this bill, the European legality is restored, [..] as the deletion of the geographical indication tsipouro and tsikoudia from article 82 of law 2960/2001 aligns the Greek legislation with the requirements of the Law of the European Union on geographical indications. The terms tsipouro and tsikoudia are registered terms with a corresponding technical file in the European Union, while both the European Commission and the Greek State itself recognize that the term can only refer to the product of systematic distillers. These terms are acquired and in fact a formal inaccuracy that was enshrined in law 2960/2001 is removed “. belonged and belongs to the two-day viticulturists and now the current government is coming to remove our name and give it its own name […] All the vine growers of the country have revolted with the baptisms you want to do in our product, the tsipouro and the tsikoudia! What bothers you to be called a traditional tsipouro or tsikoudia for two days and let the bottled people say, that they found us and we did not find them, as they want “. The representative of the Association of Greek Producers of Spirits, K. Tsililis said that” traditional character of distillation for family consumption “but what” is required is the protection of public health, the restriction of unfair competition and the protection of the European protected, but also now registered in the Geneva Act Register of Geographical Indication “Tsipouro / Tsikoudia” .
The legal advisor of the Consumers’ Union “The Quality of Life” (EKPOIZO), P. Sgouras spoke about the suspension of enforcement proceedings against the borrowers, and said that the thresholds for characterizing some vulnerable borrowers are very low, while “the proposed provisions will certainly put them at a disadvantage. ”
Finally, in his speech, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Apostolos Vesyropoulos said that if we used the name tsipouro and tsikoudia, the two-day (distillers) would have to meet the conditions of the technical file, submitted by the SYRIZA government in 2017, […] in terms of equipment, production and standardization of the product, and most importantly, “to impose an excise duty of 12.25 euros per liter of anhydrous ethyl alcohol, instead of the exorbitant 3.70 euros, established by the draft law”. In the issue of the official name, we are in front of a one-way street, so that the exaggerated rate of 3.70 euros can be used, and there is no choice, said Mr. Vesyropoulos.
Source: AMPE
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