The new measures were announced by Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, during a teleconference meeting focusing on the restart of the Greek economy.
The Relief Measures
- From 2021 onwards, mandatory tax pre-payments will be permanently reduced from 100% to 55% for individual taxpayers engaged in business activities in Greece.
- Mandatory tax pre-payments for 2021 are permanently reduced from 100% to 70% for corporate taxpayers, this will then increase to 80% from 2022.
- From 2022, the corporate tax rate for taxpayers will be permanently reduced from 24% to 22%.
- The reduction by three percentage points of the insurance contributions of private sector employees for 2022 is extended.
- The suspension of the special solidarity contribution in the private sector is extended for 2022.
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