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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will fully back the one-article draft law outlining the “Greekment” with European creditors when it comes before a Parliament vote on Wednesday, whereas close aides again flatly dismissed reports that he will resign.

“That would be neither ethical nor expedient,” one close aide stressed.

Alt. Finance Minister Nadia Valavani told private ALPHA TV that the government issued an order to prohibit the withdrawal of cash from safety deposit boxes.

“If somebody wants to go to their safety deposit box they can take everything except cash,” she said.

The deadline for the submission of income tax declarations will be extended to July 20, Kathimerini understands.

Sources say that Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani will announce the extension in the next few days, but even that date may prove too soon for the completion of the delayed procedure.

The prospects for one of Greece?s few privatization projects, the development of the old Athens Airport plot at Elliniko, appeared unclear Wednesday, after Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani said a small portion of the plot would be set aside to create waste management facilities for four municipalities.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

The Finance Ministry is promising a reduction on the Single Property Tax (ENFIA) by 30 percent by cutting the property rates used for tax purposes, known as ?objective values.?

The leftist Greek government on Monday continued to face a “Whac-a-Mole”-like array of political “hiccups”, with the latest emerging from newspaper report out of Thessaloniki accusing an alternate minister of exporting 80,000 euros last March.

Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani sent a document to the special permanent committee in Parliament stating that new state-set objective-value prices for real estate would be ready by mid-June.

“On the job training” appears as an apropos description for one SYRIZA minister, who on Wednesday left Parliament deputies dumbfounded when she said that “I didn’t even fill out my own tax return so I’m now learning”.

By Sotiris Nikas

Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani (right) made on Friday two significant changes to the controversial regulation introduced in Parliament regarding a 26 percent provisional tax on corporate transactions with firms in countries of «privileged tax status,» such as Cyprus and Bulgaria.