PRASINI

A generation of champions

The Greek Football Cup was only the beginnning!

Panathinaikos’s golden boys from 2014 cup winners will become… collectors of titles!

The insatiable thirst and the next moves planned by [coak] Anastasiou and management which will bolster the young core of the team.

[Panathinaikos beat PAOK 4-1 in the Greek cup final on Saturday, collecting its first title win in 4 years and raising hopes that the team of predominantly young players has a bright future ahead of it.]

CHONI

We have a greater deficit than in 2009!

So many suicides, so much hunger, so much poverty, so much emigration, so much sold off… for nothing. After 4 years of Memoranda, Samaras managed to increase the deficit to 16.5% of GDP. Papandreou signed the first bail-out agreement with a deficit of ‘only’ 15.4%.


While social security funds are collapsing they show gains of 7 billion euros!

They have not stopped with their ‘creative accounting’. In order to eliminate the terrifying 23 billion euro deficit, they had to declare that in 2013 social security funds had a surplus of 4.7 billion euros! It is shocking to see in the neighboring column that in 2012 they declared losses of 2.2 billion. In just one year they are declaring gains of 7 billion euros! We are talking about the year the social security system collapsed! And now do the maths with us…


The mammoth deficit:

Eurostat declares: 23.109 billion
From the funds:  + 6.951 billion
Equals 16.5% of GDP 30.06 billion

Even if the funds had remained stable in 2013 (when they collapsed), we would have to add to the deficit calculated by Eurostat, an additional 6.951 billion euros. And so we have for 2013 a total deficit of 30.053 billion euros, or 16.5% of GDP!!!

REAL NEWS

The medium term plan is bringing with it extended austerity:

Hidden measures worth 6 billion euros until 2018

A new ‘haircut’ of wages, pensions and social spending to meet the targets set by the troika.

Added taxes worth 2.6 billion euros on fuel, alcohol, cigarettes and the elimination of lower VAT rates.

Spending cuts for healthcare, education, defense and local government

KATHIMERINI

‘Guests’ –  the new trick to avoid tax

Thousands of tax declarations are now being scrutinized by the Finance Ministry regarding social dividend payments

The assessment of last years’ tax returns by the FInance Ministry to determine the eligibility of tax payers to receive ‘social dividend’ payments is generating impressive findings. In today’s Greece at least one in three declare themselves as ‘guest lodgers’. Out of a total of about 5.5 million tax returns which were submitted in 2013, about 1.85 million taxpayers declared themselves as such. Ministry officials are convinced that the high number of guests, aside from the cases that are genuine which increased during the time of the crisis (due to people  returning to the familial home due to a lack of income), conceals cases of extensive tax evasion. As such it announced audits which will rely on the statistical findings in order to bring to light cases where revenue is being concealed – primarily from rent. 

PROTO THEMA

Lamborghi’s to be raffled off

All those who collect receipts will have the right to take part in a raffle for 15 luxury cars by the Public Asset Management Organisation (ODDY). But what could you do with one?