The overperformance of tax revenues in the first two months of 2022 allows us to proceed prudently in strengthening both vulnerable households and the middle class, where possible, he said, in an intervention in Parliamentthe Deputy Minister of Finance Theodoros Skylakakiscommenting on the official opposition’s request for a reduction in the fuel tax.
Be patient, and in the coming days the government will present the policy Mr. Skylakakis told her, addressing his deputies SYRIZAstressing the difference between the government’s targeted policies and the horizontal policies (proposed by the opposition) which – as he noted – do not take into account either the budgetary possibilities or the social reality of how fuel is used.
THE SYRIZA has a special interest in fuels, because it was the last government that increased the fuel tax on 1/1/2017, said Mr. Skylakakis in his intervention on the bill for the Unified Public Procurement Authority. He also noted that the current fiscal reality is difficult, that the war in Ukraine has changed all geopolitical balances and brought a “storm of price increases” in energy, food and other raw materials, which came in addition to the imported price increases caused by the pandemic.
“On the part fiscal stability, the opposition demanded that we spend much more, tens of billions, in the first phase of the pandemic. “Fortunately, we did not do it, and we are entering the new storm, having cash at a time of extremely difficult interest rates, but also in terms of real uncertainty, which does not allow us to have a clear picture of how the budget will be formed,” said the deputy. Minister of Finance.
Finally, he pointed out that rising international energy prices are making the country poorer. We do not produce oil or gas, and when you import a more expensive product, which is forced to be imported, then the GDP and we must take into account this fact, said Mr. Skylakakis.
Commenting on the intervention of the Deputy Minister of Finance, the SYRIZA MP Christos Spirtzis he said that with his argument he demolished the “immovable”. “The economy is doing ‘excellent’ but it has no money to reduce the fuel consumption tax.” “How does this magic happen? I congratulate you for keeping a reserve and predicting the war, and you did not give money to public health so that 30,000 of our fellow citizens do not die “, added Mr. Spirtzis and asked:” And how will you face the crisis without reducing the excise tax? Will you explain these magics to us at some point? “
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