Three and four times have submitted tax and insurance information thousands of small and micro businesses affected by last year's lockdown to receive aid from the NSRF of the Region of Attica but also other, more specific programmes.
These are aids approved by the state agencies. Some people got ahead of the game and got the aid in July. Applications and submission of dozens of documents had begun last fall. The aid was for 50% of operating expenses (based on 2019 sales).
Problems in Kythera too
We learn that the same is happening in Kythera as there are professionals who have not yet been paid. And it is not just one or two cases. More specifically, these are professionals who should have been paid in October.
In contact Kytherios professional with the ELANET Intermediate Managing Authority of the programme ESPA and EFEPAE the answer is to wait as there is no money in the «code»...
The report by Stathis Schinas
As Stathis Schinas writes in Reported by, while according to the character and the framework of the EU the aid should not be used for the payment of tax debts, the government was quick to apply - despite the special circumstances of the pandemic - the general legislation and set as a condition the withholding by the tax authorities of the 30% of the respective disbursement, for debts settled and serviced, proceeding to their compulsory discounting, while, on the other hand, the government was advertising tax facilities.
So even for the amounts that were disbursed, it was mainly Mr Staikouras' budget that benefited. Only from the NSRF of the Regions for SMEs, more than 200 million euros flowed into the state coffers. And certainly not because the economy is doing well...
Now, to cope with the problems of 2020, thousands of businesses and self-employed people are still waiting for the slippery aid while it ends in 2021.
