News came out of the Prime Minister’s discussion as part of an event organized by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance and AADE to modernise the tax administration and service of the citizen. Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that “Slow but stable relationships of trust are built between the citizen and AADE and added that AADE becomes more friendly but also more strict in complex and large tax fraud cases. He added that he places the middle class on the front line of the next wave of tax reliefs. The Prime Minister is asked if he is considering slowing down because he is also causing dissatisfaction with some citizens, he replied: “The opposite. No one should be surprised by tax justice measures. Our effort is recognised and the balance is positive for society. The additional revenue collected from the fight against tax evasion returns to society.” He also said that “as long as the different measures are of a permanent nature, it is possible that after 2025 other permanent tax reductions could be planned. We will turn our attention to the further relief of the middle class. It is a policy that returns the dividend of additional revenue back to society.” On whether to have greater tax cuts he said: “In the budget to be voted on we have 12 tax cuts but I want to remind you that by changing the budgetary rules the country has ceiling spending. However, if we have stable over-performance of structural measures, we can reduce tax rates further, and that is why I spoke about 2026 and 2027.” Asked to reduce VAT rates and if he has left the table, he said: “It is early to say yet but I want to stress that we are a country that has lower VAT rates in product categories. Let us bear in mind this real data but the longer we have pleasant surprises, the more room for manoeuvre we will have in the last 2 years of our term.”
Mitsotakis: The aim of the additional relief of the middle class – the reduction of tax rates since 2026 is open
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