From this step last July, I described the goal of modernizing the country as a central pursuit of the new term with reforms that will address decades-old pathologies, said the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking at the debate on the draft law of the Ministry of National Economy and Finance entitled: “Measures to limit tax evasion”.

He noted that the government is confronting the distortions of the past that are hindering the march towards the future.

“I have been in this room for 20 years, we have discussed many times about tax evasion which deprives public coffers of revenue and disproportionately burdens those who cannot hide income” he said and added:

“Until now we have relieved the citizens, now the time has come to distribute the tax burden more fairly, as the Constitution requires. Only in this way will we be able to further reduce tax rates and save resources for social policy and increases in salaries and pensions”

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