KINAL: Sponge cake for the privileged and crumbs for the many

Criticism of the government’s tax measures is expressed by the Finance Department of PASOK-Movement for Change, with its announcement.

At a time when, he says, “inflation is galloping and devouring the meager incomes of our most vulnerable citizens and testing the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises, professionals and farmers, the government insists on privileged treatment of large landowners, at a time when it ‘profits’ at the expense of of the consumers”.

“At the last meeting of the cabinet, the finance staff re-presented the announcement of a reduction of ENFIA with the well-known examples of the benefits that arise, without any provision for the effects of the increase in fair values ​​on a number of taxes and benefits,” he added.

For PASOK-Movement for Change, “the biggest benefit, over 50% in some cases, will be for the owners of high value real estate when the average reduction will be, according to the government, 13%. At the same time, the “The government gives 380 million of the additional tax that it abolishes to the large landowners, it collects many times more from the consumers due to the large price increases on which the excise taxes are collected”.

“In the two months of November-December alone, it received more than the budget target of 522 million euros from the Exclusive Tax on Fuel and VAT, an amount that will increase further in February and the coming months,” said the Finance Department.

The conclusion, according to the authors of the statement, is that “the government, which systematically refuses to accept the proposals of PASOK-Movement for Change to deal with the effects of accuracy, systematically works for the few and powerful, to the detriment of the many and most vulnerable “.