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on Montag, 10. August 2015 at 14:07, ioannis aposperites via Marxism wrote: lots to read and study: > 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 this is from the site of the "Hellenic Chamber of Shipping" > Comments on that law are here: > http://greeklawdigest.gr/topics/transportation/item/73-taxation-of-ships this seems to cover only ships sailing under the Greek flag > 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. Thanks a lot! Unfortunately, while I have tried at least to learn Turkish, I have never ventured into Greek except for greetings, thanking and so on (and I have sung in the trade union choir here in Frankfurt/Germany the "Thi simamoun oi campanes" by Mikis Theodorakis on the test of Giannis Ritsos (If you can help to create proper IPA transscription of the Greek text, I would be immensly grateful). > This Law regulates definitely everything about shipowners' taxation. In > its second article states that no further tax obligation may be imposed > in the future. But the Deloitte summary has a section B covering ships under non-Greek flag: "As of 2013, a tonnage tax is imposed on owners of vessels flying foreign flags provided the vessels are operated/managed by offices established pursuant to article 25 of Law 27/1975" > 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. and it would have to be an international class struggle, I presume. The huge tanker fleets owned by the Niarchos and Onassis and their like probably rarely up to never touched greek ports, and the same would apply to huge container ships and most other ships, too. And their crew is international, mostly from Third World countries, except the officer caste (and that might be Croatian today, after Yugoslavia lost its merchant fleet during the balkanizing war). 55'000 ships sails the oceans to transport goods over the seven seas and between the continents. BTW, the Liberian law makes it illegal to reveal the name of the owner of ship registered in the Liberian ship registry, one of the most frequently used registries together with Panama and Malta. Thinking of todays shipping industry makes me think of B. Travens "Totenschiff" (The Death Ship). > 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. A similar rule presumable in vigor in Turkey is always cited by the German bourgois press as proof of the intolerant Turkish regime, but this corresponding Greek legislation is never mentioned. > 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! my dear goodness... Cheers, Lüko Willms _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
