The economy, political developments and recently announced austerity measures again mostly dominated the main front-page items in Athens' Sunday newspapers. A bill envisaging the reform of Greece's taxation system will be tabled by the government in parliament next Tuesday. The main principles of the draft law were presented to by finance minister George Papaconstantinou to the Inner Cabinet last week. With the new tax bill, the government will introduce a single, more progressive tax scale for all incomes aimed at redistributing tax burdens between low and medium incomes, lowering tax burdens for personal incomes up to 40,000 euros and introducing a 45 percent tax scale for incomes higher than 100,000 euros.
ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Heart attack in public sector from massive flight of employees towards retirement".
APOGEVMATINI: "Labour, wages, retirement changes in private sector".
AVGHI: "IMF 'cocktail' an adulterated drink for country."
AVRIANI: "Free-wheeling gambling by speculators betting huge sums on Greece's bankruptcy".
CHORA: "Who's going to pay the tax man: What we'll pay in latest tax storm".
ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Pension after 40 years of work!"
ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "New taxes and the unknown variable 'X'."
EPOCHI (weekly): "(PM) G. Papandreou waiting for solutions from markets. Catch 22 between IMF and (Angela) Merkel".
ETHNOS: "IMF technocrats serve up their plan".
KATHIMERINI: "Support for Greece linked with Hungarian model (solution)."
PARON: "Economic, business, political and mass media interests pressuring for unity government".
PROTO THEMA (weekly): Headlines an article alleging collusion shady business dealings between the Greek Red Cross-owned and operated Henry Dunant Hospital and the adjacent Erythros Stavros state hospital of Athens.
Realnews: "Massive scam with the signature of (former finance minister Antonis) Bezas: they've already laundered 50 billion euros".
RIZOSPASTIS: "Communist party congress: Realignment of movement for social alliance aimed at popular governance."
VETO (weekly): "Unbelievable snafu: Erroneous data by finance ministry led to (austerity) measures."
VIMA: "Lifting of civil servants tenure isn't taboo. Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis' interview".
VRADYNI: "The behind-the-scenes maneuvering in PASOK prior to tabling of draft tax bill".
21.03.2010
