Athens combines outstanding loans and pay later. At the same time the government wants to raise taxes. A solidarity tax should bring 220 million euros this year.
The European flag and the Greek flag waving in front of the Acropolis in Athens | © Petros Giannakouris / dpa
Greece is at its next rate expose the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and only bundled at the end of the month to pay a total rate. A similar request had reached the IMF, said the organization. The IMF approved the project immediately, bundling is possible by its statutes.
In June four installments are due, the next over more than 300 million euros have already Greece must remit Friday. By the end of the month are a total of 1.6 billion euros.
“We have an opportunity in the rules of the IMF exhausted, which gives us more time for the negotiations,” said a government official in Athens. The Fund announced that the scheme to be able to settle all overdue in monthly installments at a stroke, had been introduced in the late 1970s. The desired objective was that time, eliminate management problems that can arise when a number of transfers have to be processed in a short period of time.
Tsipras wants to enact new taxes
The Greek Government is ready to introduce new taxes. In a 47-page list several measures which are intended to reduce government debt. In return, the government hopes more grants. So should a special tax on corporate profits more than a billion euros a year to bring a luxury tax 30 million euros and a “solidarity tax” in the current year 220 million euros.
Around eleven billion Euro by 2020 through reforms and privatizations be taken. Der Tagesspiegel published the paper, from the already quoted the Greek press, on the internet.
demands to increase the VAT on energy and abolish supplementary pensions, had the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejected. This, the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF had demanded in a separate list. The Greek Finance Ministry said the list exceeded the red lines of the Greek government.
EU considering reclassification of loans
The European Commission is currently discussing, how it can help Greece in the immediate Zahlungsnot. One possibility would be to reallocate unused billion for the bank bailout as an aid for Greece. This could the government in Athens to save over the summer.
The 10.9 billion euros had once been provided to prevent the collapse of Greek banks. They flowed back to the euro bailout fund EFSF – to prevent them being diverted to finance the Greek state.
prerequisite for reclassification is an extension of the end of June expiring second rescue program for Greece, write World and Handelsblatt . An alternative to the extension “we hardly to bring Greece over the summer,” it said, according to World of European negotiation circles.
Bundestag would have to agree
The government in Athens could use the money to pay loan installments to the ECB and the IMF in the summer. But this condition is also that the creditors agree with Greece over the reform plan currently being discussed, writes the Handelsblatt .
The Bundestag and other parliaments would approve an extension of the aids. A subsequent third tool would be yet an issue. From the current utility still standing from 7.2 billion euros. Alone in June, the government in Athens needs to pay back 5.2 billion euros government bonds in addition to the IMF rates. In July, about 6.9 billion are at various creditors due.
Green lament failure to provide information
The Greens criticized that the government does not sufficiently integrates the Bundestag. In a letter to Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and Chancellor’s Office chief Peter Altmaier complain four parliamentarians that the government had not been informed of the results of high-level meetings – despite several requests
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