Lower VAT for all islands with fewer than 20,000 residents corrects an injustice, PM Mitsotakis says

The lowering of VAT for each islands with less than 20,000 residents “corrects a large injustice arsenic regards the North and South Aegean,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a sojourn to the colony of Atsiki connected the land of Limnos connected Thursday.

“This fundamentally means that Limnos and Agios Efstratios are joining the reduced VAT status,” helium added, portion talking to section residents astir the interaction that the taxation breaks for tiny settlements and distant Aegean islands volition person connected their life, erstwhile the measures travel into unit successful January.

“We person undertaken, I believe, a precise important inaugural for our smallest settlements, nether 1,500 individuals, to destruct ENFIA implicit a two-year period, thing that concerns each the settlements and villages of the land – including that of Atsiki – but for Myrina. I judge that this is thing that the citizens volition spot and volition travel to admit successful the adjacent 2 years,” the premier added.

Mitsotakis was referring to a 30% simplification successful VAT connected the islands of the North Aegean Region, Evros and the Dodecanese.

The premier curate besides referred to the enactment fixed to farmers and livestock breeders:

“We privation to enactment the superior sector. You are an land with a dynamic superior sector, a dynamic attitude. We person immoderate outstanding issues with payments, I judge that we volition beryllium capable to settee them swiftly, wrong the adjacent month, for reasons that I deliberation are known to each of you.”

The residents spoke with the premier curate astir their needs and section issues, aft which helium met with farmers who had gathered determination and heard their demands.

Mitsotakis past visited the Limnos cultivation cooperative “The Union” and was shown astir the facilities of its winery by the president, Dimitris Marinakis, arsenic good arsenic having a treatment with the absorption and unit astir its operation.

PM Mitsotakis visits Myrina, chairs gathering with island’s section authorities officials

The premier curate visited the island’s main municipality of Myrina successful the afternoon, wherever helium chaired a gathering with representatives of section authorities and the organisations of Limnos and Agios Efstratios.
In statements astatine the meeting, helium again highlighted the value of the reduced VAT complaint and gradual elimination of ENFIA spot tax, which payment astir each regions of the 2 islands but Myrina itself. He besides stressed the area’s dependence connected farming and pledged enactment to make the tourer manufacture of the 2 islands successful a sustainable way, arsenic good arsenic referring to solutions relating to farming issues, specified arsenic entree to a vet.
“You should, therefore, cognize that we are present with our ears unfastened to enactment the section community. For america – and I accidental this adjacent much for Agios Efstratios, politician – determination are nary archetypal and second-class citizens. We privation citizens, wherever they whitethorn be, to consciousness that they person the aforesaid opportunities and entree to the aforesaid prime of wellness and acquisition services. We inactive person steps to marque successful that direction,” Mitsotakis said.
This included making radical connected the islands of the northeastern Aegean consciousness information and security, helium added, via a Greece that is strong, presents its rights with self-confidence, perpetually strengthens its Armed Forces, which person go associated with this region.

source ANA-MPA