Skylakakis in SKAI: In the next few days, legislation on the excess profits of electricity suppliers

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The Deputy Minister of Finance clarified that the government has taxed the profits, it is just that the taxation has not yet been ascertained.

In the next few days, the national delegation will receive a legislative regulation that will concern him excess profit recovery mechanism from electricity suppliers, the Deputy Minister of Finance told SKAI 100.3 today Theodoros Skylakakis.

The president of SYRIZA – PS Alexis Tsipras, in his interview last night on SKAI’s main news bulletin, said that in the first eight months of 2022, there were super profits which the government has not taxed. “From the taxation of 90% of the surplus profits, 800 million euros should have been collected, either according to RAE’s data for six months, or according to our calculations, 1.9 billion euros”Mr. Tsipras said characteristically.

In response, Mr. Skylakakis clarified that the government has simply taxed profits taxation has not yet been confirmed.

“We expect revenue by the end of the year, which will be between 300 and 400 million eurosthis is a difficult and technical job” noted Mr. Skylakakis. He also mentioned that the existing mechanism has a weakness, it is based on forecasting. This, as he said, also happened in August, to the detriment of the companies, and in September and October , in favor of companies.

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