Showing posts with label income. Show all posts
Showing posts with label income. Show all posts

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Middle-class Greeks to fork out over 40% of annual salary in tax

Athens passed new tax increases to boost revenue by US$3 billion to keep in line with previous commitments to creditors. The new measures limit family benefits and force the middle class to pay over 40 per cent of their annual salary in taxes.
Greek’s Conservative-led coalition has passed the new tax increases to middle and high-income earners, self-employed and businesses.
The new law increases the amount of income tax paid by those earning more than US$26,000 a year, limits tax benefits for having children, revokes tax breaks for farmers and increases corporate tax to 26 per cent from 20 per cent.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Greek families struggle with austerity


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Two elections, two rounds of austerity measure and endless strikes and protests, Greece has struggled through 2012. Under the huge financial pressure, how are Greeks holding up?
Six people, all crushed into this small apartment of less than 100 square meters in Athens. But with the sole income coming from a near-bankrupt small jeweler firm, this is the best Annasta’s family can afford.
Annasta’s husband lost his job four years ago. To add more woes, six months earlier, he was paralyzed from the waist down after a stroke.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Απόρριψη του «φόρου Ολάντ» από το Γαλλικό Συνταγματικό Δικαστήριο

Η κυβέρνηση θα επανασυντάξει την σχετική πρόταση και θα την καταθέσει εκ νέου.
Το Συνταγματικό Δικαστήριο της Γαλλίας απέρριψε τον νόμο για φορολογικό συντελεστή 75% στα εισοδήματα πάνω από 1 εκατομμύριο ευρώ που αποτελούσε κεντρικό ζήτημα στον προϋπολογισμό της κυβέρνησης του Γάλλου προέδρου Φρανσουά Ολάντ για το 2013 και είχε προκαλέσει την οργή των πολιτών με υψηλό εισόδημα.
Το δικαστήριο απέρριψε επίσης τις νέες μεθόδους για τον υπολογισμό του φόρου περιουσίας.

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