By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

They want to keep their regulation – at least the vast majority – but they can’t. The regulation of 72 installments was established to deal with the debts incurred during the pandemic. In 2021, 11,210 people entered the arrangement for debts to the insurance funds and at the end of the year only 3 had lost it! 12 months later, at the end of 2022, the number of people who lost regulation had skyrocketed to 17,924!!!!!

The numbers are relentless and regarding the regulation of the 120 doses. The 2021 – with the economy closed for a large part of the year – around 21,500 people lost the arrangement. In 2022 the number almost tripled to 203,300.

And these figures concern exclusively the debts to the insurance funds which are only a fraction of the debts to the tax office. And this is what they saw in the government, and they are giving taxpayers who lost the regulation of 72 or 120 installments until February 1 the possibility to revive them. The condition is the payment by July 31 of 2 installments, the current one and an additional one.

The debtor is also obliged, if he has other debts besides the arrangements that were lost, to include them in the fixed arrangement of 24 or 48 installments within a month of the revival of his arrangement.

Along with the regulation, its benefits are also revived, such as the release of, for example, bank accounts.

For example, even a taxpayer who revives the regulation of 120 installments but has other unregulated overdue debts. He is obliged to adjust them in 24 or 48 installments with a deadline of 1 month from when the revival of his arrangement of 120 installments is validated.

The large number of taxpayers who lose their arrangements highlights, in addition to the difficult economic conditions – despite the reduction of taxes in which the government has progressed – and the “self-denial” of those who succeed and are consistent.

And to those who managed not to go out of regulation despite the twin crises of the pandemic and energy, the government addresses with the new regulation of 36 or 72 doses with a minimum amount of €30.

Therefore, someone who until November 21, 2021 had no overdue or unregulated debts and created debts later can include them in this arrangement.

Those who created debts after November 21 and settled them in 24 or 48 installments also benefit. Now they can make 72 of them.

In 72 doses it can also set a third category. Those who had settled their debts in the permanent arrangement after November 21, 2021 lost it and at the same time at a later stage additional debts were confirmed to them. These additional later debts can be included in the 72 installments and at the same time the fixed settlement debts must be readjusted to the fixed settlement.

For example, even a taxpayer who on November 1, 2021 has debts settled with the fixed arrangement of 24 installments, which he loses in March 2022. In April 2022, new debts are confirmed to him which he can include in the arrangement of 72 installments. At the same time, however, he is obliged to include the debts of the fixed arrangement that he lost in new fixed arrangements within one month of his inclusion in the arrangement of 72 installments.