Greek Property Tax (Haratch,Haratsi)

As predicted, this new property tax is likely to be permanent.

See earlier blog 

Richard Pine, Letter to Athens News, 9 October:

Property tax

I AM ready and willing to pay the new property tax, provided, firstly, that there is a transparent mechanism for assessing the amount due, including the criteria to be applied, and, secondly, that there is an efficient method of appealing any assessment which the owner considers to be inaccurate or unfair. Those of us who are foreign residents in Greece should not object to a fair and equable tax of this kind, but I fear that, with the first instalment already due in December, a clear set of explanations of the assessment process in Greek, English and other foreign languages will not be available to householders in time.

Richard Pine 

Corfu