By Vangelis Dourakis

The primary “mammoth” surplus may have opened a “window of opportunity” which took advantage of the Maximus Mansion by announcing benefits originally planned for September, but that does not mean that the “package” of interventions was closed. On the contrary, it is filled again, only that the new “gifts” are of different types and relate to other categories of beneficiaries. And it’s already at the prime minister’s table.

It was currently decided to grant the 13th pension substitute, namely the 250 -euro allowance to low -income pensioners and the rent return to “vulnerable” households. But the beam that follows and will be announced at the TIF will have different characteristics.

What are the government’s next steps for benefits

The basic direction listens to the phrase ‘Tax cuts’: It will be a package of measures that aspires to limit tax burdens mainly to middle income.

At the government table are interventions related to direct taxation and focusing this time In the middle incomewhich are believed to have pulled the whole “paddle” in difficult times (memorandums, coronavirus, energy crisis), paying their obligations to the state until the last euro, without even getting a … thin euro aid.

In the relevant list there are changes to Natural Income Tax Scale, Living Documents, ENFIA, Independent Rental Taxation, Solidarity Contribution and possibly, the abolition of the end of the business And for businesses.

On the table and one more Reduction of insurance contributions by 0.5% or 1%. All of the aforementioned one way or another should be considered “locked” with what is left to be the “detail” which is usually the one that makes the difference: on the one hand in terms of final costs for state funds and on the other in the … pocket of citizens.

The “scissors” in indirect taxes has not been in the “conversation”, however nothing is excluded as much as the budget It runs by continuing to supply the available fiscal space in conjunction with the “gift” of the Commission For defensive costselements that can form such an environment that will allow even more bold taxation.

The beam of measures that fell to the table

In detail, the bunch that the government is studying:

– Changes to the Taxation Scale: They are one of the interventions that have received “green light”. Emphasis will be placed on the relief of the middle class and in particular those with incomes of more than 20,000 euros. The suggestions made in this direction are:

-> Tax scale redesigning with the addition of new intermediate tax rates for income between 20,000 and 50,000 euros. On the table and the reduction of existing intermediate coefficients by 2 to 3%.

-> Increase in income above which the highest tax rate will be applied. Today the top tax rate of 44% is imposed on the part of the income exceeding 40,000 euros. There is talk of imposing this high rate on incomes of more than 50,000 euros.

– Changes to ENFIA: The original plan was to review the tax surcharge for properties of more than 400,000 euros. However, “strong paper” is the proposal for horizontal abolition of ENFIA in the First Housing. An intervention, however, that has a high cost and will also need to be “countermeasures”.

– “Haircut” by 30% of the living documents first and their complete abolition over time.

– Abolition of the business fee and for their businesses and branches.

– Solidarity Solidarity Contribution: New interventions have fallen to the table after the scale has fallen.