A union representing Tax Office employees has called a strike for December 29th and 30th, due to anger at pay cuts and implementation of the new emergency property tax.
The strike, as daily Kathimerini reports, is expected to worsen pre-New Year queues to pay vehicle and other taxes. The POE-DOY union called the strike, arguing that its members had been unfairly blamed for weak revenues in 2011.
Tax officials have also been asked to man committees to consider thousands of exemption claims for a new emergency property tax levied on electricity bills.
Following a public outcry, exemptions have been promised to the disabled, the unemployed, low-income pensioners and other disadvantaged groups. Crisis-hit Greece has admitted it will miss its 2011 deficit target, blaming weak revenues on a worse-than-expected recession.
(source: ANSA)
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