North Evia – Samos Pass: The platform for “Phase 2” opens today

The North Evia – Samos Pass is put into operation at noon on Monday, July 25 through vouchers.gov.gr. This is the platform that was implemented with the cooperation of the Ministries of Digital Governance, Finance, Development & Investments and Tourism and aims to financially support the tourism activity for the regions of North Evia and Samos.

The second phase of the program concerns immaterial digital debit cards that beneficiaries will be able to use for the period up to 31-08-2022 for accommodation, catering and local transport costs in the above affected areas.

In particular, for Northern Evia are to be issued 4,050 cards of €100 and for Samos 2,025 cards of €200. The vouchers.gov.gr platform will remain open for the second phase of the program from 12:00 on the 25th^her July and while the intangible digital debit cards last, with a closing date for applications on 29^the July.

Regarding the first phase of the North Evia – Samos Pass, which is still in progress and concerns intangible digital debit cards that can be used until 31^the July, with the data so far:

• for Samos 2,950 from the 4,000 issued cards of 300 euros have already been added to citizens’ digital wallets and approved 14,475 total amount transactions 476,891.00 euro and
• for North Evia 5,416 from the 8,000 issued cards of 150 euros have already been added to citizens’ digital wallets and approved 12,023 total amount transactions 426,272.00 euro.

It is recalled that the action has a total budget of 6 million euros, and through it approximately 32,000 beneficiaries will be able to issue an immaterial digital debit card as an incentive to visit the two regions, stimulating local tourism. The North Evia – Samos Pass has no income criteria and, therefore, those citizens who:

• is tax residents of Greece according to the tax return of the tax year 2020 and
• they are not beneficiaries in context:

• of the Social Tourism program for the period 2021-2022,
• of the Social Tourism program of D.Y.P.A. 2022 and the action “Tourism for all” of the Ministry of Tourism or
• related provision from any other body for the same period of time.

It is clarified that for married people or persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement until the tax year 2020, the beneficiary is the person liable to submit the tax return or one of the two, in case of a separate return. The North Evia – Samos Pass can be used exclusively either by the beneficiary himself to cover his local transport, catering or accommodation costs, or by those designated as his “beneficiaries”, namely:

• his adult children who are declared as dependents on the personal income tax return for the tax year 2020 or
• the beneficiary’s spouse or the person who has entered into a cohabitation agreement with him/her.

The action is divided into four phases, during which the beneficiaries will be able to request the issuance of the immaterial digital debit cards and use them at specific time intervals. In particular, the program is structured per month, as follows:

The operation of the platform is particularly simple, as to submit the application each citizen needs only them his passwords to Taxisnet and the confirmation of one mobile phone number and once e-mail address. All other data are automatically collected through the Interoperability Center of the General Secretariat of Public Administration Information Systems. Analytically: