Greece’s relevant agriculture minister over the weekend promised wine producers that his leftist-rightist government will abolish an unpopular special levy on wine consumption by the end of the year, one of the numerous tax measures that were imposed last year in a bid to meet memorandum-mandated fiscal targets through higher revenues instead of slashing state spending.
Speaking to producers at a wine exhibition in the Nemea district, a well-known viniculture region in the northeast Peloponnese of southern Greece, farm Minister Vangelis Apostolou repeated that the special tax will be cut, while citing a promise by the prime minister over the matter.
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