Hundreds of protesters laid siege to the Council of State in Athens today chanting: “We won’t pay.”
Greece’s high court was considering appeals against a new property tax which is being levied through electricity bills and has sparked anger across the country, because those who don’t pay it will get their power turned off.
It is among a raft of harsh cutbacks, including pension and pay cuts and swingeing tax increases, imposed at the behest of the IMF and the EU over the past 20 months in return for loans to enable the country to keep up with payments on its soaring credit charges.
Fourteen appeals have been filed by bar associations, trade unions, lawyers and property owners. The court will not reconvene until January 19 and is expected to rule several weeks later.
Several municipalities have urged citizens not to pay or threatened power suppliers with lawsuits if they disconnect clients who can’t afford the emergency levy.
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