The opinion that the tax bill under discussion particularly concerns “the generation of the crisis” underlined during his speech in the Parliament, Alexis Haritsis, taking the floor for the first time as president of the Parliamentary Group of the New Left.

“The people who, like today, December 6, saw their coming of age sealed by the state murder of a 15-year-old child, Alexandros Grigoropoulos. And the demand remains the same: justice“, he characteristically said starting.

Referring to the essence of the bill, he said that instead of correcting the “distortions of the past”, “takes us back to the past“, while it is “confession of the failure of a state that cannot regulate the crucial issue of taxation in a fair way and resorts to measures that ultimately violate the constitutional principle that Greeks contribute to public burdens according to their strengths».

Al. Haritsis also accused the government that the bill in question “he doesn’t care about those who should pay moreo”, who, as he argued, have “benefited” from the ND “all these years with provocative tax exemptions and systematic tax evaders”, while he also spoke of the use of the “known, old recipe of social automation”.

“Today the country needs a fair tax reform that will be based on the new possibilities we have – digitization, Artificial Intelligence, system modernization – and above all on a long-term plan“, emphasized Al. Haritsis.

Continuing, he blamed “hypocrisy” on the government which “in the pre-election period he announced tax cuts and advertised modern tax tools and today he resorts to the exact opposite: the application of presumptions“, while underlining at the same time, that “a horizontal measure on incomes that are not fixed is patently unfair” and even referred to the relevant Report of the Parliament’s Scientific Service.

“In the complex pyramid of freelancers, the government focuses its attention on its base and calls all those arrested there “tax evaders”, he said characteristically, blaming the ND for “eliminating them from economic and social activity”“, in order to “to strengthen the few, large and powerful, companies, just as the famous Pissarides report described».

““New Democracy is the party of tax evasion, the party of unfair taxation, the party that does not want a modern, fair, socially oriented tax system,” said Al. Haritsis, at the same time emphasizing that for these reasons she has “a broad protest movement” against her, while she opposed the government’s commitment that tax revenues are earmarked for public health and education as, as she said, “her announcements for the immediate future which show the degradation and gradual privatization of these public goods effectively invalidate her argument».

In closing, he underlined that the “New Left” is in favor of “of redistributing the tax burden of direct taxes in favor of the weakest through the fight against tax evasion and the excessive profitability of the powerful“, which is “feasible”, “not with horizontal measures that will soon give way to other measures, but through a strategic planning that will be based on the real data and problems of Greek society».

“Against social automation, the populism of demonizing taxes for the powerful and the cynicism of horizontal taxation of the many, we oppose the documented, strategic need for tax and social justice. Against the arrogance of the government, we will seek the programmatic consultation of progressive political and social forces for a meaningful and real tax reform“, he emphasized.