Taxi drivers & owners on 48-strike to protest new tax bill

Taxi drivers and owners in Athens mobilize again against the new tax bill and announced on Wednesday a 48-hour strike on December 5 and 6, 2023.

The Board of Directors of tax owners and drivers of Athens union (SATA) decided to escalate the mobilizations, expressing “the anger and indignation of thousands of motorists for the government’s tax-extortion attack” as they said in a statement.

It is recalled that SATA held a 24-hour strike on November 22 and had threatened to escalate its actions if the new tax bill taxing self-employed with deemed income.

“The tax bill under consideration is an open intention to destroy every form of individual entrepreneurship. It is a brutal murder of human dignity and the values that a democratic country is supposed to provide to its citizens,” the SATA said adding that “the government’s economic staff planned the on-the-job death of thousands of professionals, including taxi drivers.”

They said, among others, that “the taxi is in danger of extinction. Their [government] intention is to destroy us financially and force us to surrender our licenses to multinationals and big business groups.

The union claimed that the government’s goal is:


– The disappearance of small and medium enterprises and the self-employed.


– The employment of 750,000 people who will staff large business groups and multinationals.


– The provision of new capital tax exemptions (reduction of capital accumulation and sale of listed shares tax rates) which are provided for in the specific bill.

SATA demand the withdrawal of the new tax bill, a tax-free limit of 12,000 euros annual income and the abolishment of the entrepreneurship fee.