Owners and brokers are not the only shipping players at risk of seeing their tax advantages whittled away in Greece’s debt crisis.
The threat of tax hikes has now reached the doorstep of Greek seamen — once the country’s pride and repository of its maritime tradition, but now an ageing and rapidly dwindling force.
Leaked documents suggesting that the cash-strapped government and its international lenders are in talks to abolish the low-income tax rates that apply toseafarers have sent shockwaves through their trade unions.
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