{"id":17424,"date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kefim.org\/tax-freedom-day-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:00:00","slug":"tax-freedom-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kefim.org\/en\/tax-freedom-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Freedom Day 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Constantinos Saravakos<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year when Greeks have the opportunity to choose themselves which way they are going to spend their income. For 2019, KEFiM estimates that Tax Freedom Day was the 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of June. <strong>Greeks work 180 out of 365 days of the year for the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the 2019 \u039dational \u0392udget tax collection projections, Tax Freedom Day in Greece was the 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;of June. Greeks work 180 out of 365 days of the year for the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2019 Greeks worked 73 days to pay the indirect taxes, 46 days to pay direct taxes and 61 days to pay social contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The total tax burden (78 billion, 2019) is almost double the amount Greek households spend to cover their basic needs (42 billion, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each year since 2009 Greeks work on average an additional 3.5 days to pay their taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0According to Molinari Economic Institute Greece\u2019s Tax Liberation Day is the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0worse among the EU countries while Greeks are the least satisfied citizens among the OECD countries regarding the public services they receive compared to the taxes they pay. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Center for Liberal Studies<\/strong>\u00a0(KEFiM) held a press conference on\u00a0<strong>29 July 2019<\/strong>\u00a0at Amalia Hotel, Athens, to present the Tax Freedom Day research for 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research was introduced by KEFiM\u2019s Research Analyst\u00a0<strong>Constantinos Saravakos<\/strong>, and featured commentary by Minister for Development and Investments, Vice-President of New Democracy party\u00a0<strong>Adonis Georgiadis,<\/strong>\u00a0Deputy Minister of Fiscal Policy\u00a0<strong>Thodoros Skylakakis\u00a0<\/strong>and Public Administration Expert, member of Movement for Change (political alliance)\u00a0<strong>Panayiotis Karkatsoulis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Journalist\u00a0<strong>Panagiotis\u00a0Davlos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Video of the Press Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vkqtpRN9gs\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos of the Press Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/140631735@N03\/albums\/72157709959221591\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kefim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/%CE%97%CE%A6%CE%95-2019.pdf\">here<\/a> in Greek. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantinos Saravakos Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year when Greeks have the opportunity to choose themselves which way they are going to<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,200,219,87,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","category-featured-en","category-research-2","category-ta-nea-mas-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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