The President of the SYRIZA-PS Parliamentary Group, Sokratis Famellos, submitted a topical query to the Prime Minister, demonstrating as soon as once more the injustices of the federal government’s regulation on the horizontal, anachronistic and unconstitutional extortion, which freelancers, the self-employed and particular person companies, in full distinction to the ND’s pre-election commitments of not rising taxation.
With the Prime Minister himself admitting weaknesses and injustices, but in addition suspending any corrections for September, professionals, scientists and the self-employed are being requested to pay a number of taxes immediately by means of a pre-arrested sacking, supposedly to battle tax evasion. In actuality, the federal government is “experimenting” with the life and work of 1000’s of execs, pushing many, particularly within the periphery, into lockout, implementing the provisions of the Pissarides plan.
For the reason that authorities refused final week the related modification of SYRIZA-PS and whereas reactions are growing all through Greece and an enchantment by the collective our bodies to the Council of State, SYRIZA-PS chooses to carry the matter to Parliament on the highest stage. Mr. Mitsotakis himself known as upon to clarify in Parliament and in a public discussion board why he’s focusing on and forcing the precious potential of scientists, professionals and the self-employed to stop exercise and mind drain, thus harming the Greek financial system for the sake of some oligopolies.
On the similar time, Sokratis Famellos calls on the Prime Minister to undertake the abolition of the presumptive methodology of taxation of Regulation 5073/2023 and to right away begin a dialogue for a good tax system, as requested by all of the collective our bodies.
Right here is the total textual content of the present query:
Athens, June 26, 2024
CURRENT QUESTION
To the Prime Minister
Concern: Will the federal government persist in implementing unfair and horizontal tax measures that drive freelancers and the self-employed into despair and lockout?
With Regulation 5073/2023, the federal government of the New Republic launched the presumptive taxation of freelancers, self-employed and sole proprietorships, with an arbitrary and horizontal manner of calculating taxable earnings, for every exercise code (KAD) maintained by the taxpayer. Underneath the pretext of coping with tax evasion – and admitting its lack of ability to take care of it and to use fashionable oblique management methods – it abruptly legislated a “head tax”, on the righteous and the unrighteous, trampling on its pre-election guarantees that there can be no enhance in taxation .
The governing majority ignored the objections of the our bodies, which identified the numerous injustices from the alleged sacking of taxpayers, the Scientific Service of the Parliament, but in addition the objection of unconstitutionality submitted by SYRIZA-PS, with which all of the opposition events had been drafted.
With the laws, any idea of authorized certainty was bypassed, as the federal government “knowledgeable” taxpayers on the finish of 2023 in regards to the taxation of the yr that was already accomplished!
The measure, as an alternative of coping with it, helps tax evasion on increased incomes because the annual presumptive earnings is not going to exceed 50,000 euros and subsequently nobody could have a purpose to declare incomes above 50,000 euros or related bills.
The potential for disputing the presumptive methodology of taxation presupposes, on the one hand, the certification and fee of the tax and, then again, the management by the competent authority, which may prolong to a depth of 5 years and likewise be excessively delayed as a result of weak spot of the management mechanism, in keeping with the info of AADE. The result’s that few problem presumptive earnings as a result of the state itself prevents them, successfully difficult their proper.
The unjust “head tax” of the Mitsotakis authorities was designed with absolute sloppiness. Indicatively, the particularities of the professions will not be taken into consideration (e.g. the earnings of a taxi driver or a avenue market vendor doesn’t enhance with the years of working within the occupation), the household earnings, the circumstances the place there can’t be hidden taxable materials (court docket bailiffs ) in addition to the numerous earnings distinction of an expert in a small nation city or a big city heart.
Thus, freelancers and self-employed individuals are requested to pay a number of instances extra tax than in earlier years, for earnings that they could not have collected, with out even having collected the digital bills for 2023, ensuing of their extra burden. Thus, a large number of execs, scientists, artisans and merchants, confronted with an extreme and disproportionate enhance of their tax obligations, are locked out, as a way to fulfill the forecasts of the Pissarides report and the Mitsotakis plan for the focus of financial wealth in a couple of oligopolies on the expense of small and medium-sized enterprises .
After the outcomes of the European elections, the federal government promised “level corrections”, which is able to come from September onwards, whereas the certification and fee of extreme and unfair taxes, which is able to lead small and medium-sized professionals, particularly within the area, in a lock. And all this provides to the issues of utmost accuracy and exclusion from monetary instruments that have an effect on all professionals and the self-employed.
Following the above, the Prime Minister is requested:
1. Why is he insisting on a grossly unfair, anachronistic and unconstitutional tax framework that can burden many taxpayers with a number of taxes for 2023, though he himself admits that it wants fixing?
2. It intends to proceed instantly with the abolition of the provisions on presumptive taxation launched by Regulation 5073/2023, as proposed by SYRIZA-PS with an modification, because the fiscal footprint of the measure is anyway coated by the excess it already has focus in 2024 and on beginning a dialogue on a good tax system that can battle and stop tax evasion, as demanded by the self-employed and small and medium-sized enterprises?
The Questioner
Socrates Well-known
President of Parliamentary Group SYRIZA PS
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