The provisions of the new multi-bill

The huge multi-bill is bringing many changes in the lives of millions of Greek citizens, to be tabled this evening in parliament, in order to pass under express procedures all prerequisites for the tranches of 8.8 billion euros until Sunday.

Thousands of employees remain outside the public sector, millions of borrowers to the State are left unregulated, while the VAT reduction in catering and the settlements of debts to banks remain outside the multi-bill.

The economic team hopes that the government can recover up to 700 million euros by the end of the year from the promoted debt settlements. Despite opposition even from the coalition parties, the government leaves out the arrangements for 48 doses, and those who consistently adhere to the regulations signed on overdue debts in 2012, with far fewer doses.

In contrast, those who abrogated the setting and were in overdue debts up to 2012 were included in the arrangement.

The package of measures also establishes the most short-lived and efficient tax in recent years: it describes the tax that will be paid for six months by homeowners. Despite the horizontal discounts at former EETIDE by 15%, along with the property tax, owners will pay 2.3 billion euros more this year, added to the 1.1 billion euros more they are required to pay for taxes from the past (real estate tax in 2010 - 2012).

The bill also solves the problem of permanence in the public sector, as it implements the dismissal of 4,000 employees this year (about half of them during the summer) and 11,000 in 2014, because they are checked as perjurers and inadequate. By special arrangement that will probably be included, it will also cancel hundreds of State contractors who returned to the public sector with an injunction by the courts.