In a symbolic blockade of the Piraeus courts, the lawyers Piraeusled by president Ilias Clappa and the members of the Board of Directors, protesting the tax bill.

The former president of the Council of Bar Associations of Europe (CCBE) Evangelos Tsouroulis also attended the protest event.

According to Piraeus Bar Association“the bill does not seek to crack down on tax evasion, as it is claimed, but aims to change the economic development model by violently reducing the number of freelancers”.

“The provisions of the bill establish a presumption of guilt against them for tax evasion, provide for collective responsibility and impose indiscriminate punishment under the pretext of the existence of cases of tax evasion” is stated in a related announcement.

The Piraeus Bar Association notes that according to data published by the Ministry of Finance, lawyers are among the first eight professional groups of self-employed people with the highest average tax returns.

“The Bar Association of Piraeus, o Piraeus Medical Associationthe Dental Association of Piraeus, all the Chambers that are advisers to the State and the Trade Association and the Labor Center of Piraeus, we have jointly denounced that this measure is unfair, anti-development, distorts the economy and leads to the annihilation of many freelancers and self-employed people and it turns one professional group against another, dividing society” points out the Piraeus Bar Association.

It also calls for the immediate withdrawal of the provisions that provide for the taxation of self-employed persons on the basis of imputed income, as well as the withdrawal of the provision for monetary rewards for whistleblowers.