He accuses of “teasing”. SYRIZA-PS the government on the “excess profits of energy companies” and adds that at the very least, what it should do is “tax 90% of the actual extra profits of electricity producers, as well as 90% of the extra profits of DEPA Emporia, as well as 90% of the billion-dollar excess profits of oil refineries” .

In their joint statement, the heads of finance Efi Ahtsioglu and the Department of Environment and Energy Socrates Famous they state: “Today the Government confirmed and formalized the scandalous gift of superprofits to energy companies” and explain:

“At that time, it collects 4.1 billion more VAT from citizens due to accuracy, at that time it reduces the taxation of shipowners’ dividends, at that time it legalized the accumulation of excess profits from oligopolies with an alleged “ceiling” mechanism that realizes, gives billions to electricity producers with an outrageous reduction in the superprofits it taxes. The Ministry of Finance approves only EUR 373.5 million as an emergency levy for the period October 2021 to June 2022, setting the excess profits at an unimaginably low amount of EUR 415 million, while the actual excess profits of electricity producers for July 2021-June 2022 is 2.2 billion euros, based on indisputable RAE and ADMIE data.”

They go on to accuse the government of “literally embezzling 1.8 billion and a mockery of consumers, households and manufacturing plants that have been carrying the windfall profits of several energy companies for more than a year.” Moreover, even these minimums that the government taxes will turn them into a subsidy for dirty money. At the same time, since July, windfall profits have continued to accrue both in wholesale and mainly in retail trade, which the government has now legalized through a disgraceful mechanism it has created. Billions of superprofits have accumulated all this time in both oil and gas.”