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Greek Ministry of Finance Will Pay for Coronavirus Vaccinations
Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras stated on Thursday that the country has put funding in place to cover the costs associated with the coronavirus vaccine once it becomes available, potentially at the end of this year.
Earlier on Thursday, the...
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Anarchists Storm Ministry of Finance in Athens
A group of around 30 people believed to be members of the Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) stormed the Finance ministry in the center of Athens.
The group entered the main entrance of the building at Nikis Street and reached...
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Gikas Hardouvelis: From Humble Beginnings to the Hot Seat of the Ministry of Finance
Gikas Hardouvelis, the new Greek Minister of Finance who replaced the much-criticized Yannis Stournaras in the hot seat of the office, was born in a small village in Arkadia, Peloponnese, to a poor family. He went to primary school in...
Economy
Ministry of Finance Proposes Bill to Tackle VAT Evasion
The Ministry of Finance proposes a new mechanism which will improve the effects of auditing and tax services. Haris Theoharis, the General Secretary of Public Revenue, during his interview for the Taxheaven website, uncovered some details for the new...
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Troika to Meet Greek Ministry of Finance in Athens
The Ministry of Finance is preparing for the arranged visit of Troika representatives in Athens, on the 4th of November.
This time, the main issues to be discussed are the restructure plans of EAS, ELVO and LARKO, the suspension of...
Economy
Ministry of Finance Adjusts New Real Estate Tax Plans
The Ministry of Finances is supposed to be submitting the new bill for the unified real estate tax. Over the past year, we have heard quite a bit about numerous changes on the subject.
According to the law, all real...
Economy
Ministry of Finance Proposes New Bill
According to the newly proposed law by the Greek Ministry of Finance, the revenue office will be able to accept payment of debts by the transference of property.
Debts to the State have now surpassed the 60 billion euro mark. ...
Economy
Ministry Of Finance Plans New Measures For The Collection Of Receipts
The Ministry of Finance plans to impose new measures regarding the receipts under the scope of a new National Fiscal System.
As it is noted by the Ministry and the Market it is not fair that the receipts from stores...
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Ministry of Finance Meetings Regarding IMF Loan Continue
Many continuous meetings in a climate of agony are scheduled to take place, as of Tuesday morning in the office of the Minister of Finance, Mr. Papakonstantinou. The meetings involve measures of the long haul plan to be formed,...
Economy
Ministry of Finance Announces March 4th Debt Collection Deadline
Liability dues totaling 5.8 million Euros are owed by citizens living abroad with real estate property on fair market value territory of 283.8 million Euros. This resulted from cross-examinations made by the General Secretariat of Information Systems of the...
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Greek Ministry of Finance Bomb Scare a Hoax
At 13:02 p.m an anomymous call triggered a bomb scare in The Ministry of Finance just when The Finance Minister was about to address the media. The call however turned out to be a hoax. The caller claimed that...
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Greece's Finance Ministry Launching 'Receipt Lottery' at End of June
The Finance Ministry will be launching a "receipt lottery" in hopes of encouraging consumers to ask for receipts and decreasing tax evasion. It is set to start in late June across Greece and the ministry has allotted 12 million...
Economy
Greek Growth Forecast for 2017 Reduced to 1.8 percent by Finance Ministry
The Greek growth forecast for 2017 is depreciating greatly from what was once a 2.7 percent expected growth.
Just one day after the European Commission said that they expected only a 2.1 percent growth for Greece, and according to a...
Economy
Finance Ministry Mulling Ways to Stop 'Fiddling' of Cash Register Records
The finance ministry is currently scouting out mechanisms that will prevent aspiring tax evaders from erasing records of sales from their cash registers at the end of the day, Greek Deputy Finance Minister Katerina Papanatsiou revealed on Sunday.
This was...
Economy
ND Accusation that Gov’t Growth Plan will Burden Public Finances is Unfounded According to Ministry Sources
The accusation that some of the measures on employment proposed in the government’s Growth Plan will burden Greeks further is unfounded, sources from the Economy ministry told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Sunday.
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