Scenario for freeze on ‘tekmiria’

The Finance Ministry is set to review the use of taxpayers' asset data to establish the real level of their incomes - known as "tekmiria" - at least for the 2020 financial year. The reason for this is to avoid thousands of taxpayers having to pay taxes on nonexistent revenues as the financial crisis resulted in last year's incomes dropping - steeply in many cases.

Alternate Minister Thodoros Skylakakis told ANT1 TV on Wednesday that a large section of the population has suffered a disproportionate blow, and noted that the government does have a sense of justice and realizes that something must be done.

Sources say the ministry is considering a number of scenarios: One of them provides for the complete exemption from the tekmiria of all taxpayers and corporations affected by the pandemic. The deactivation of the tekmiria will concern workers who were in furlough last...