heating oil

The myHeating platform is open for applications until the beginning of November. In December the first payments of the allowance to the beneficiaries

The Deputy Minister of Finance Katerina Papanatsiou announced the online platform...

About 600,000 household on low incomes will have to wait until early February in...

The main plan of changes to the heating oil benefit includes stricter income and asset criteria, along with a reduction in the...

The price of heating oil in Greece has plunged and approximated the price it had before the introduction of the bailouts, due to...

The Ministry of Finances has announced that it plans on paying out 44 million euros for the heating oil benefit next week...

About 450,000 beneficiaries have yet to receive the down payment of the heating oil benefit due to the delay in the publication...

The European Commission has admitted that the coalition government’s initiatives regarding the taxation of heating oil has failed...

The distribution of heating oil is expected to begin on the 15th of October this year, with the coalition government hoping to see...

The nationwide federation of fuel traders POPEK has issued a statement demanding that the special consumption tax on heating...

The coalition government has began weighing its options and preparing to negotiate a deal with the troika in order to reduce the tax...

According to official figures of the State Treasury, the controversial increase of the tax on heating oil appears to have been a failure...

The government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou appeared on ANT1 on Thursday morning to announce that the coalition government has the will to tackle all forms of fuel smuggling, in light of the recent police operations. According to Mr. Kedikoglou the recent equation of the heating oil and diesel taxes out an end to smuggling and fraud […]

Taxpayers who were successful in their application for the heating oil benefit and placed orders for oil in late November will be able to collect the third installment of the heating oil benefit today. The General Secretary of Public Revenue Haris Theoharis announced that the 327,000 beneficiaries will collect approximately 38.5 million euros. So far […]

The Minister of Finances Yannis Stournaras announced on Christmas day that the measure of equating the tax on heating oil and diesel has been “successful”, after meeting the Ministers of the Environment Yannis Maniatis and Health Adonis Georgiadis to discuss the smog problem. Mr. Stournaras chillingly explained that “we recognize the problem, but reducing the […]

A group of 41 New Democracy MPs have requested from the Minister of Finances to reduce the special consumption tax on heating oil, citing the inefficiency of the government measure and the humanitarian problems affecting thousands of households caused by the lack of heating. As explained in their letter addressed to Minister Yannis Stournaras, IOVE’s […]

The Deputy Minister of Finances Christos Staikouras announced today that the State Treasury has approved a 51.5 million euro fund packaged to cover the increased heating oil needs of hospitals and schools. Mr. Staikouras further explained that 37.5 million euros were used in advance payments for the heating benefit, 10 million euros were given the […]

The General Secretary of Information Systems revealed that within the first two weeks of operation, the relevant website for the heating oil benefit has received over 225,000 applications. Even though the Ministry of Finances originally claimed that the beneficiaries would be able to collect the heating oil subsidy “immediately” after submitting an application, it has […]

The troika representatives visited the Minister of Finances Yannis Stournaras yesterday, despite the previous uncertainty and confusion regarding the troika’s return to Athens. The initial talks were conducted in a positive climate, mostly because the prior actions were not discussed. The troika executives plan on visiting the Ministries of Labor, Health and Administrative Reform before […]

According to the Ministry of Finances, the General Secretariat of Information Systems’ web platform received about 100,000 applications for the heating oil benefit last. Contrary to the Ministry’s original announcements of a prompt payment, beneficiaries have not received a single euro from the down payment. This development has pleasantly surprised the Ministry of Finances staff, […]