{"id":20771,"date":"2021-07-07T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kefim.org\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2021-08-05T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T11:12:13","slug":"tax-freedom-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kefim.org\/en\/tax-freedom-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Freedom Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>In 2021 Greeks worked 179 out of 365 days of the year to pay taxes <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 7th consecutive year, KEFiM conducted the \u201cTax Freedom Day\u201d study in Greece, depicting in a comprehensible way the tax burden of Greek taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest study in 2021 Greeks worked 179 out of 365 days of the year to pay taxes and social contributions. If the deficit for 2021 is taken into account, then the Tax Freedom Day is estimated to be the 10th of August, with 221 working days. <\/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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2021<strong>Tax Freedom Day in Greece was the 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of June<\/strong>, with 179 out of 365 days of work for the state. <\/li><li><strong>If we take into account the General Government deficit<\/strong> for 2021, which represents future taxes, then the Tax Freedom Day for 2021 comes 42 days later, <strong>on August 10th.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>In the twenty years from 1999 to 2018, 47 more days of work were added<\/strong>, since in 1999 we worked for a total of 139 days, in 2012 174 days, while in 2018 we reached 186 working days to pay taxes and social contributions.<\/li><li><strong>The total burden of citizens and businesses<\/strong> from taxes and social contributions in 2021 amounts to 71.9 billion and i<strong>s almost double the amount paid by households to meet their basic needs <\/strong>(44.4 billion in 2019 for food, clothing , housing, household goods, transport and communications).<\/li><li>Greece records one of the 7 highest charges from taxes and social contributions for 2019, among 23 European countries for which data are available for both indicators.<\/li><li><strong>Greece records a lower degree of effectiveness of social policy<\/strong>, compared to the average for 2019, being <strong>24th among the 26 European countries<\/strong> for which data are available, <strong>while <\/strong>at the same time <strong>it has the 8th highest burden of taxes and social contributions<\/strong> (14 days above average) in the 26 countries of the sample, for the same year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was conducted by\u00a0<em><strong>Constantinos Saravakos<\/strong><\/em>, KEFiM\u2019s researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/kefim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/%CE%97%CE%A6%CE%95-2021-2.pdf\">Tax Freedom Day 2021 Study [In Greek]<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021 Greeks worked 179 out of 365 days of the year to pay taxes For the 7th consecutive year, KEFiM conducted the \u201cTax Freedom Day\u201d<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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