Market Pass: When the platform opens – Beneficiaries and criteria for the subsidy

At the beginning of February 2023, the electronic platform for submitting market pass applications and issuing the shopping card is expected to open, while from the end of the same month it is estimated that the first payments will be made, which will be completed six months later, i.e. in July 2023.

Payments will be made the first week of each month.

As announced and voted with a relevant amendment, a 10% subsidy is given on the purchases of households that meet the inclusion criteria, in supermarkets and other businesses active in the retail trade of food (bakeries, mini-markets, fruit shops, butchers, fish shops, dairy shops, etc. ).

The main parameters of the intervention, which concerns approximately 8.5 million citizens:

The aid is given at the household level. Spouses or members with a cohabitation agreement, their dependent children, other dependent members and guest members are taken as members of the household.
The monthly purchase limit per household on which it receives the 10% aid amounts to 220 euros for a single-member household, increasing by 100 euros for each additional member of the household and up to 1,000 euros of purchases.

Monthly purchase limit and aid amount, examples:

Single-member household: 220 euros monthly purchases, 22 euros monthly aid
Couple without children: 320 euros monthly purchases, 32 euros monthly aid
Single-parent family with one dependent child: 320 euros monthly purchases, 32 euros monthly support
Single-parent family with two dependent children: 420 euros monthly purchases, 42 euros monthly support
Couple with a dependent child: 420 euros monthly purchases, 42 euros monthly aid
Couple with two dependent children: 520 euros monthly purchases, 52 euros monthly aid
Couple with three dependent children: 620 euros monthly purchases, 62 euros monthly support
Couple with four dependent children: 720 euros monthly purchases, 72 euros monthly support
Above amounts will be credited monthly to a digital debit card that can only be used at food retail outlets.

In the event that the beneficiary chooses to deposit into a bank account, the amounts are paid quarterly and the amount of the aid amounts to 80% of the above amounts.

Beneficiaries and inclusion criteria

Beneficiaries of the aid are natural persons who are single or married or widowed or persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement or are separated or divorced.

Especially, for married people or persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement, the beneficiary is the person obliged to submit the income tax return according to article 67 of Law 4172/2013 or one of the two in case of submission of a separate return.

Natural persons are entitled to aid if they meet the following criteria:

Their annual total family income, regardless of its source of origin, real and imputed, amounts to:

• up to 16,000 euros for an unmarried debtor or a widowed or separated debtor and
• 24,000 euros for a married debtor or the married persons or the parties to the cohabitation agreement or the natural persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement and – have submitted a joint tax return without children, which is increased by 5,000 euros for each dependent child, other dependent member and guest member of the household.
• Likewise, for a single-parent family, the aforementioned income amounts to up to 24,000 euros, which is increased by 5,000 euros for each dependent child, other dependent member and guest member after the first. The annual total family income does not include that which is cumulatively exempt from income tax.
• The total value of the real estate, as it results from the act of administrative determination EN.F.I.A. of the year 2022, debtor, spouse or cohabiting partner and dependents, not to exceed the amount of 250,000 euros for singles, widowed or separated debtors and the amount of 400,000 euros for married or cohabiting parties and single parents families.

The following are excluded from the granting of aid:

a) Natural persons, who are declared in the Personal Income Tax Declaration as dependent members of the debtor according to article 11 of Law 4172/2013.

b) Natural persons, who declare in the Personal Income Tax Declaration that they are hosted.

c) Natural persons subject to luxury living tax.

d) Tax residents abroad.

e) Natural persons who have not definitively submitted their income tax return for tax year 2021 until December 31, 2022.

To determine the above exemptions, the data of the Personal Income Tax return of the tax year 2021, as it has been prepared on December 31, 2022, and other sources are used.

Procedure for granting and using the aid

The beneficiary natural person (the person liable to submit the income tax return or one of the two spouses/members in case of submitting a separate return) enters the relevant electronic platform at gov.gr, with the taxisnet codes, where eligibility is certified and the monthly payment is informed amount of aid.

Then he can choose to use a digital debit card or receive the aid in a bank account.

In case of receiving the aid in a bank account, he receives 80% of the amount of the aid, on a quarterly basis and can use the amount as he wishes.

In case of using a digital debit card, the full amount of the aid is credited on a monthly basis and in particular the first credit is made before the end of February 2023 and then within the first week of each month.

Calculation of costs/beneficiaries

• The income criteria are estimated to be met by 83% of households and the property criteria by 95% of households. Potential beneficiaries are estimated at around 3.2 million households (out of 4.1 million households) with around 8.5 million members (out of 10.4 million population).
• The average purchase limit is estimated at approximately 380 euros and concerns purchases of approximately 1.2 billion euros per month.
• The fiscal cost for the six months, under the assumption that about half of the households will choose to use a debit digital debit card amounts to about 650 million euros.
• The entire cost will be covered by the reserve of the Budget for combating the energy crisis.

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