With her votes New Republic the tax bill was voted on Thursday, as a whole the opposition voted against.

158 legislators voted for, 140 against, 0 absent, for a total of 298 votes.

For the articles for which a roll-call vote had been requested:

  • ARTICLE 7: 169 in favor, 129 against 0 present
  • ARTICLE 15: 158 in favor 140 against, 0 present
  • ARTICLE 49: 158 in favor 140 against, 0 present
  • ARTICLE 50: 158 in favor 140 against, 0 present

The Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kostis Hatzidakis, announced this morning four basic improvements to the provisions of the bill to limit tax evasion.

“The government has decided to completely exclude, from the provisions for the presumption, the coffee shops in villages with less than 500 inhabitants and on islands with 3,100 inhabitants, from the provisions of the law. Anyway, we were talking about 1,800 businesses and with revenues that would be limited anyway. The charges were 35 euros, 70 euros, 120 euros per year. We were talking about such charges. In any case the government decides to exclude them”said the Minister of National Economy and Finance and added:

“Because kiosks sell low profit productsthey convinced us, in the dialogue, that there should be a special exception in terms of turnover, in terms of the burden due to turnover”, he noted and added that “the third intervention concerns the insurance consultants who work in up to two companies. There is a similarity with the workers with blocks and that is why there will be an exception there too.”

Finally, he emphasized that “in taxis, those with a share of up to 25% will have a 50% reduction in the presumption imposed by law.”

Mr. Hatzidakis he said these are the four main exceptions the government will make in the draft law.