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Originally Posted by Osem
What about the taxes required to pay the wages and pensions? There'll be even less receipts surely.
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Most salaries and all pensions are deposited to the bank, taxed at source. Friday was the end of the month and a pay day, that's the reason of the queues on the ATMs. They had a daily withdrawal limit set by themselves for Fri, Sat and Sunday. Each person had to queue 3 times.
Today this limit has been reduced to 60 Euros. The ATMs are now open...
People with credit cards issued by a bank in Greece (even foreign ones) are stranded abroad. Citibank, Societe General, Deutsche Bank credit cards issued at Greek branch are blocked, when used here or in Europe or Asia etc--- they might work in Greece....