PASOK-Change Movement launched a direct attack on the ND representative, Akis Schertsos, on the occasion of his reference to the reduction of indirect taxes on consumption.

“Mr. Skertsos during his many years of service as General Director of SEV learned – as can be seen from his announcements – the following admirable finances:
It claims that the reduction in consumption taxes – and in particular the VAT, which New Democracy had included in its pre-election program in 2019 – favors the rich, while the reduction in taxes on distributed dividends of hundreds of thousands of euros and on parental transfers of assets of millions of euros favors the economically weak and the middle class and not the least powerful, which Mr. Mitsotakis supports and supports!

Apparently, the New Republic does not want to remember that because of the accuracy, citizens will pay an additional 5 billion euros in indirect taxes in the two years 2022-23.

That the purchasing power of workers has fallen by 7.4% according to the OECD and the EU report finds that there will be no real increases in 2023 either.

That the public debt increased by 50 billion and the trade deficit in 2022 was 12% while for this year it is determined at 9.2%. Something that does not happen all over Europe, as the New Democracy likes to argue, since in Portugal – a country with similar economic characteristics – the trade deficit was 1% last year, and this year it is turning into a surplus of 1%.

Furthermore, the New Democracy Government’s commitments to the EU for primary surpluses, reaching 2.5% in 2026, herald the continuation of the unprecedented over-taxation of low and middle incomes through consumption taxes and the implementation of the New Democracy hidden agenda. for the upcoming tax raid on freelancers and the self-employed.

Ideal candidates for the next Nobel … of economic mockery”