A few taxpayers pay most taxes

The same people who have shouldered the fiscal adjustment of recent years continue to pay the lion's share of taxes, with 90 percent of income tax paid by just 19 percent of the population, an event organized by the Economic Chamber of Greece (OEE) on the 2019 budget heard on Tuesday.

According to the figures presented by Vasilis Zoumboulidis, associate professor at the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Greece relies on a constantly shrinking group of individuals and corporations for its tax revenues.

This policy is set to continue in 2019, as next year's draft budget does not provide for any changes in tax policy for those incomes - which not only pay their taxes but are also behind the bulk of consumption.

Zoumboulidis noted that the primary surplus overrun on which the fiscal policy model has been constructed and the budget is executed shows...

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