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Παρασκευή, 05 Απριλίου 2019 14:39

April 2019 a 'mense horribilis' for Greece's self-employed professionals due to 4 types of social insurance payments

Some 1.5 million self-employed professionals in Greece - out of a total population of some 11 million in the country - must fork over four different types of social insurance contributions by April 12, namely, regular pension fund payments, another for future supplementary pension, a one-off payoff and retroactive contributions dating to Jan. 1, 2017.

By S. Papapetros
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Some 1.5 million self-employed professionals in Greece - out of a total population of some 11 million in the country - must fork over four different types of social insurance contributions by April 12, namely, regular pension fund payments, another for future supplementary pension, a one-off payoff and retroactive contributions dating to Jan. 1, 2017.

The specific castes of self-employed professionals - from physicians to civil engineers to farmers - affects some 250,000 taxpayers owning retroactive payments, emanating from new social security laws passed amid the third memorandum bailout.