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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ΑΤΗΕΝS — Greek state budget deficit totaled 10.519 billion euros in the January-August period, down from a budget target for a deficit of 13.487 billion euros, but up compared with a deficit of 9.681 billion euros in the corresponding period last year, the Finance ministry said on Monday.
The primary result was a deficit of 6.381 billion euros in the eight-month period, down from a budget target for a shortfall of 9.405 billion but up from a deficit of 5.484 billion euros last year. Net revenue was 34.686 billion euros, up 7.6 pct from budget targets, although excluding extraordinary receipts from the EU, along with ECB's gains from Greek bond purchases, net revenue was down 1.6% from budget targets. Regular budget revenue was 37.510 billion euros, up 6.7% from targets. Tax revenue was 28.716 billion euros, down 0.6% from targets, reflecting increases in the categories of: VAT on oil products (1.1%), VAT on tobacco products (5.1%), VAT on other products and services (0.8%), special consumption tax on tobacco (2.9%), special consumption tax on other products (4.8%) and taxes on financial and capital transactions (21.3%). Also, taxes on car registrations (11.7%), other taxes on goods and services (196.8%), income tax (1.3%), transfers (72.8%) and other current revenue (0.7%). Tax revenue fell short of targets in the categories of: special consumption tax on energy products (2.2%), stamp tax (6.8%), other taxes on production (2.0%), corporate income tax (19.9%), capital taxes (12.1%) and other current taxes (11.5%). Taxes from selling fixed assets were down 98.7%.
Tax returns totaled 2.824 billion euros, down 89 million from targets, while Public Investment Programme revenue was 3.404 billion, down 292 million from targets.
State budget spending totaled 45.205 billion euros in the January-August period, down 1.1% from targets.
In August, budget revenue totaled 7.717 billion euros, up 3.090 billion from targets, while regular budget revenue was 8.049 billion, up 3.017 billion from targets. Tax revenue was 4.342 billion euros, down 1.9% from targets, tax returns totaled 332 million euros, down 73 million from monthly targets, while Public Investment Programme revenue was 1.227 billion, up 735 million from monthly targets.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.