Plan for tax debts is not submitted

The fate of the plan for settling tax debts in 120 installments remains unknown, as the government did not present it to the representatives of its creditors during this week's negotiations in Athens, while a senior official left it open as to whether such a proposal would be submitted at all.

"If we prepare such a proposal - and I am not saying we will - we are going to discuss it with them. But for now we have not sent them anything," the same official told reporters as he informed them about the course of the second post-bailout assessment that is to be completed on Friday.

It is therefore very likely the new payment programs for tax debts will be postponed, if not canceled altogether. In contrast, the settlement of debts to social security funds as described by the labor minister will become law in February and start applying from March, the ministry announced on...