Main opposition slams government for continuous tax raid

ND noted that taxes owed by individuals to the State increased by 1.5 billion euros in September alone, without counting in the unified property tax (ENFIA), the solidarity levy, the luxury tax and other taxes and advance payments the coalition government will soon be mailing to households. “The lower-income families cannot tolerate any more!” the party said in a statement.

Commenting on the government’s plans to hike VAT in private education, ND accused the government of attempting to drag all households downwards. “The government is imposing for the first time a tax which – as the European commissioner for economic and financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici, revealed – is its own idea … will hurt significantly family budgets, will bring more unemployment and will have serious repercussions in private and state education,” ND said. “But this was ultimately the goal of the Left: to drag everyone downwards.”