The coalition government has submitted a critical multi-bill containing 232 articles, in an effort to complete the troika-mandated prior actions to collect the outstanding one-billion euro tranche from the troika’s last review and to be prepared for the upcoming meeting in Paris.
As expected, the ill contains a wide range of provisions, many of which may prove to be controversial. Amongst them there are the abolition of third-party taxes, provisions regarding the delineation of the coastline and the merger of supplementary pension funds.
The pension fund merger will affect the lump sums that uniformed officers receive upon retirement, which in turn may cause further tension with the coalition government.
Furthermore the bill contains provisions for the creation of a five-member committee that will examine the assets declared by MPs and ministers and a series of tax-related articles designed to curb tax evasion and streamline tax procedures.
