SYRIZA charge Mitsotaki’s government with not doing enough to tax excessive profits by energy companies

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Energy and oil companies in Greece are “defiantly increasing their profits at a time when the entire economy and society are cruelly hit by extreme increases in electricity and fuel prices,” SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance MPs Alexis Charitsis and Sokratis Famellos said on Saturday.

The MPs, responsible at the main opposition party for issues of development and energy, respectively, cited a cover story by “Efimerida ton Syntakton” newspaper and said that “Greek society is being bled in two places,” by the high special tax and VAT. “The introduction of taxation on excessive profits on energy companies is a global obligation,” they underlined.
Greece in particular, said the two deputies, “holds the pathetic European prize in highest cost for car fuel.

But instead of accelerating the taxation on excessive profits, the Mitsotakis government does what it can to defend cartels and subsidize profiteering,” particularly by “avoiding to carry out sweeping checks in the fuel market to fight shameless profiteering.”

In conclusion, Charitsis and Famellos claimed, “the Mitsotakis government neither can, nor does it want to, deal with high prices,” and called for a political change where the state intervenes in the market and returns excessive profits back to society, to break the foul cycle of high prices and profiteering.

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