Crisis In Greece

Greece’s economy is bleeding from

More and more companies of the Greek middle class, drag with your business in the neighbouring countries. The Greek state miss out on important tax revenues. From Thessaloniki reported Marianthi Milona.

In a backyard of the Bulgarian town of Petrich there are at hundreds of Greek small – and medium-sized enterprises, in the past ten years, Greece turned its back on the and headquartered in Bulgaria have shifted. From Thessaloniki from only 120 km away, the Town of Petrich is just one example of many.

There I meet the to-do Shoe manufacturer Kostas Amanatidis. He is with his company, after Bulgaria pulled and so far it has not looked back. His reasoning: “Here is everything else, as in Greece.” He don’t even know where he is with the enumeration of the reasons to start: “How the government works? How the IRS works? Or as the laws of the country be handled?” You pay his taxes and have absolutely no more problems.” No one comes and demands more than what you be obliged are to pay. Twenty years ago, already was able to you within 10 days, a new company register and a Bulgarian tax code.” It must be remembered, he says, that it is in Bulgaria at that time still duties were, because it was still not an EU country.

Shoe manufacturer Kostas Amanatidis and two of its employees in Petrich

Unity among the Greek businessmen

Shoe manufacturer Amanatidis holds large pieces on the Bulgarian state and its bureaucratic apparatus. And he stands with this opinion is not alone. Similar also thinks the fashion designer Maria Papadopoulou recently in Petrich, a small tailor shop has opened. As the orders went back, because their German Customer prefer to produce in China wanted to, she was also with a heavy heart, forced out of Greece to leave, although the daily work in Bulgaria is more difficult.

As a further reason is also called the unternehmerfeindliche tax environment in Greece. “I would wholeheartedly back to Greece to go back. But with the price and tax policy where it is impossible for me.” You have your high-quality workshops and leave in Petrich the rooms of the Bulgarians taken from four simple Pappwänden. “In Greece, I had qualified skilled workers, and here I have to even invest the time to train our staff.”

The Nähereibetrieb by Maria Papadopoulou

Greek tax accountants pull with

The Dilemma of the Greek businesses are stuck, know tax specialist Dimitris Michelakis very accurate. Therefore, he decided, with to Bulgaria to go to the Greek business people on site to help. He is convinced that it is a messy Greek tax system is, the many Greek entrepreneurs to the escape force. And cites the following examples: “a 10 percent income tax in Bulgaria is much less than 35 percent with us.” Also would be constantly new Changes in Greek tax system. “There is a tax rate set and if that is not sufficient, then the tax rate just increased again.” 2015 had it been so, the middle of summer, just as the tax returns had finished: “At once went to the income tax go up. Suddenly flapped and new claims into the house. Another Vorsteuerleistung, at 27.5 percent, increased to 55 percent.”

“What is it with this country?”

Those who, despite the difficult financial Situation so far in Greece has remained, the force is now the capital controls, an account in neighbouring countries open up. Christos Dimitriadis, a successful manufacturer of underwear, suspected even a secret Plan of the EU. And it is with this notion, not alone. Almost all Greek entrepreneurs believe that the economic developments in Greece do not come by chance, says the fashion designer: “There are examples in this world, there are countries for cheap labour force has restructured, other countries are now pure Investitionsoasen.” And Greece? “If you want a vacation Paradise of it or make it as a camp for refugees ready? Ok! Then one should that tell us, so that we know where we stand. Here are’s anyway at the moment nothing more, for it is worth to stay.”

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Political Decisions

The crisis of the traditional craft has not only by a wrong tax policy in Greece, believes the Bekleidungsfabrikant Pandelis Philippidis. For him, everything is Evil in the wrong investment policies of the previous Greek government. The state would have the sovereign debt crisis from the beginning in the wrong packaging and the business people are so financially in the lurch. “The liquidity of the holdings was easily prevented. The government had at the outbreak of the crisis, only one thing in mind: the rescue of the banks.”

The departure of Greek companies goes inexorably on. After Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania and Turkey. The Greek financial expert Jiannis Sopasis sounds the Alarm and calls on the political Elite of the country new way of thinking. Recently, he said in a television appearance: “The President of Bulgaria has recently, in a speech in Thessaloniki is not without reason said: We would like to thank Greece, that we have to create 100,000 new jobs. I mean, that should be here, but all decent shake-up.”

Government wants reforms

In such statements, feels Voula Tektonidou, the Secretary-General for economic relations and development cooperation in the Greek Ministry of economy thoroughly addressed, warns but at the same time, to caution, to not the errors of the old system to a victim: “Yes We want a real start-UPS is here again. Not those, the on the Fast your money in the Warm-and no care. I can’t see more: Sick companies, but renovated entrepreneurs!”