of Yiannis Anifantis

Citizens are tested not in living, but in survival, she said Zoe Konstantopoulou at Parliamentcriticizing the Government’s tax policy.

“Is there logic in the exhaustion of ordinary people, at the same time that the robbers of economic life roam as lords?” asked the President of Plevsis Eleftheria and emphasized that, in order to be successful, the tax system must be fair, simple, stable, transparent, accessible and proportional.

In her speech, Zoe presented the 10 initial proposals of the Freedom of Navigation regarding taxation.

1st proposal: Citizens and businesses should be taxed according to their wealth and power. To abolish the horizontal taxation system.

2nd proposal: Abolition of VAT on food and basic necessities.

3rd proposal: Full exemption from VAT for vulnerable groups, disabled people, unemployed, homeless, three-child, multi-child, young people, students, new couples and other categories.

4th proposal: Reinstatement of the reduced VAT rates for the Dodecanese and for critical areas.

5th proposal: Reduction or abolition of VAT rates, for the areas affected by extreme weather events, such as Thessaly, Evros and other areas.

6th proposition: Abolition of VAT on lawyers’ services. Legal services are not a commodity.

7th proposal: Abolition of the Excise Tax on agricultural oil. It is a permanent, eternal and fair request of the farmers, it is also a proposal and request of Freedom of Navigation.

8th proposal: Reduction of VAT or abolition as the case may be on agricultural products.

9th proposition: Taxation of banks’ surplus profits, which for 2023 reached 4 billion euros.

10th proposal: Complete abolition of the minimum presumptive income, which applies to freelancers, traders and the self-employed.