Marinakis: Every year, gov't aims to keep incomes higher than prices

The reductions of shelf prices at food stores will initially be applied to 120 items, while supermarkets have committed to raising the number to 600 items, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis told Talk Radio 989 on Tuesday, CE Report quotes Athens-Macedonian

Speaking to the radio station, Marinakis also said that the 'imported and persistent high prices' seem to be dropping gradually, "but it takes a lot of months still to counterbalance the many months we had accumulated inflation, especially in foods." In relation to the high cost of living, he added that the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis "has reduced, has abolished, in his first term 50 tax rates and in the second one, just in Thessaloniki International Fair alone, he announced another 12 tax breaks." This is part of the government's consistent policy, along with raising salaries and other measures, to increase even indirectly citizens' incomes and to relieve businesses and households.

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