Post by dustdevil28 on Dec 16, 2012 8:38:12 GMT -8
Paying their "fair share" 
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ATHENS, Greece — Greeks earning more than €42,000 ($55,000) per year will now be taxed at a new top rate of 42 percent, under a major new tax reform bill submitted to the country’s parliament late Thursday.
Under the new guidelines, the 42 percent top tax rate and earnings threshold replaces the previous level of 45 percent for incomes above €100,000 ($130,770). The new rate is part of a simplification of the country’s tax rules. There are currently eight tax bands ranging from 18 percent to 45 percent. These will be replaced by three tax rates: 22 percent, 32 percent and 42 percent.
Greeks earning less than €25,000 ($32,700) a year are set to benefit from the new system in spite of the raise in the basic tax band as the government is proposing to raise the threshold on which income is taxed.
The new tax rates, part of the austerity measures demanded by the country’s international rescue lenders, were submitted to parliament hours after the finance ministers from the 17 European Union countries that use the euro agreed in Brussels to restart rescue loan payments. Greece is in line to get €49.1 billion ($64 billion) between now and March, with €34.3 billion of that amount due in the coming days.
Greek finance minister, Yannis Stournaras, presented his colleagues form the other 16 European Union details of his country’s long-awaited tax overhaul before the bill was submitted.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/greeks-earning-42000-to-be-taxed-at-top-rate-in-overhaul-demanded-by-lenders/2012/12/13/2b7e748c-458b-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html
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ATHENS, Greece — Greeks earning more than €42,000 ($55,000) per year will now be taxed at a new top rate of 42 percent, under a major new tax reform bill submitted to the country’s parliament late Thursday.
Under the new guidelines, the 42 percent top tax rate and earnings threshold replaces the previous level of 45 percent for incomes above €100,000 ($130,770). The new rate is part of a simplification of the country’s tax rules. There are currently eight tax bands ranging from 18 percent to 45 percent. These will be replaced by three tax rates: 22 percent, 32 percent and 42 percent.
Greeks earning less than €25,000 ($32,700) a year are set to benefit from the new system in spite of the raise in the basic tax band as the government is proposing to raise the threshold on which income is taxed.
The new tax rates, part of the austerity measures demanded by the country’s international rescue lenders, were submitted to parliament hours after the finance ministers from the 17 European Union countries that use the euro agreed in Brussels to restart rescue loan payments. Greece is in line to get €49.1 billion ($64 billion) between now and March, with €34.3 billion of that amount due in the coming days.
Greek finance minister, Yannis Stournaras, presented his colleagues form the other 16 European Union details of his country’s long-awaited tax overhaul before the bill was submitted.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/greeks-earning-42000-to-be-taxed-at-top-rate-in-overhaul-demanded-by-lenders/2012/12/13/2b7e748c-458b-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html
