Potami strongly criticises education minister's statements on school fees VAT
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Προσθήκη του gazzetta.gr στην Google The opposition Potami party on Wednesday strongly criticised statements regarding the imposition of VAT on private schooling made by Education Minister Nikos Filis, who had earlier dismissed the extra financial burden imposed on families by the VAT charge on school fees as "small change".
"It is clear that the government of leftist millionaires has lost all sense of proportion," Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis said after a meeting with the private schools' teacher union federation and private-school parent association committee.
"The government today essentially admitted that the 23 pct tax on private education was its own proposal," he noted, after hearing the concerns of parents and teachers regarding the problems that the new tax regime will bring
Following a meeting on Tuesday, the government announced that it was revising a decision to raise VAT on all private education from 0 pct to 23 pct and would impose 6 pct VAT on extra private tuition, such as frontistiria and language schools, and 13 pct VAT on private schools.
