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On 10/08/2015 12:53 μμ, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:
Is this Statute 27/75 available anywhere in English or another more
frequently spoken language than Greek?
BTW, Article 3 of the same constitution (
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Greece#Article_3 )
is even more astonishing as it gives certain religious beliefs
constitutional backing, thus taking away religions freedom,
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1. I am afraid I can't find any translation of 27/1975. You can find it
in .. greek here: http://www.nee.gr/downloads/265N27-1975.pdf
Comments on that law are here:
http://greeklawdigest.gr/topics/transportation/item/73-taxation-of-ships
and here:
http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/Energy-and-Resources/dttl-ER-Shipping-Tax-Guide-6countries.pdf
though I have not compared them with the law itself.
This Law regulates definitely everything about shipowners' taxation. In
its second article states that no further tax obligation may be imposed
in the future. And this has been the case since then, as only tax
relaxations have been approved by the legislation according to the needs
of the evolution of the shipping capital (There are at least 57 of
them). The last major one in 2013 imposes a tax of only 10% on the
distributed shares to physical persons/shipowners (not companies),
whether they are profits solely from shipping companies or ,in part,
from any other kind of business.
To tax the shipowners beyond 27/1975 is unconstitutional in Greece. Even
to change that law, there must be a constitutional reform as 27/1975 is
explicitly linked with the constitution! Of course the legal restriction
is a matter of the class struggle level, but nevertheless it indicates
the profound subordination of the state to the shipping capital.
2. The article 3 of the greek constitution is another deplorable one.
And on top of this, nobody in Greek can officially have (let alone
built) a religious place, any kind of church or temple, without the
local bishop's permission.
On the contrary, some rich people with (the indispensable) connections
to a bishop, were able to build (even pharaonic) villas as "secondary
auxiliary buildings" of a small private chapel, in areas where building
was totally prohibited by the city planning commission. It was the local
bishop's and not the city planning commission's responsibility to permit
or not the construction of a chapel!
JA
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