N. Karavitis: “we Need to repeal the additional ENFIA”

“The ENFIA -as we see it right now-, it’s not the tax that I at least had thought about it. First of all, you need to…
removed the booster ENFIA, which creates a thousand problems and is completely εκτρωματικός,” said professor of Public finance at Panteion university, Nikos Karavitis, the show “Troika of 9.84”.
As argued by mr. Karavitis “property tax in real estate -that exists throughout the world, usually is low, because it is very difficult -not to say impossible-for the state to put a tax will be to match the income with the property. There are some who have great wealth and little income, people who have large incomes and small property etc. For this reason, for you to be safe, should not be too high this tax is. The additional tax brings huge burdens to people who probably don’t have the income…”.
Mr. Karavitis has underlined that three years after the enforcement of ENFIA, we are still “debating if we should have a property tax and what form it takes. This offers nothing to the economy. The tax is there. Could have been done very calmly and quickly all the corrective movements in order to work properly the tax. Will have to see, to do it very quickly and stop any more talk about this. In the EU, all countries have property taxes. Some of them even have higher tax than our own. To see the essential and to try to strengthen the credibility of the system, and fixed tax regimes. If every minister, every time he wants to change the taxes, in his own way, because it considers that this is the right, without sometimes to know what’s right and what’s not, just take ideas from around and say, “let’s do it” and trying to promote the guy who yells louder. Doesn’t work”.
The changes proposed by mr. Karavitis is, among others, is the income criteria for the imposition of tax and in respect of the supplementary tax ENFIA argued that removing the “reduce the burden on production”. In the field of legal persons, who have to pay. Finally, you need to be an internal redistribution of weights in the ENFIA. You need to grow a little -I’m not talking about huge amounts-, the charge on the property, which is outside of objective determination, land parcels etc. and to reduce the burden on residential real estate. It should, however, start from the abolition of the supplementary tax”.
With regard to the abolition of the estate tax mr. Karavitis noted: “When you get to the evasion of taxes and stop wasting the taxes of the state, we can look back on it and wish to be removed, not a tax, but it’s still a ten. This is common sense. But until that happens, what do we do? We have a program that runs, a country located in the program since 2010 and nothing has been done yet. I don’t have time to stop and really evaluate what we have done?”.
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