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    Posted: 03 December 2014 at 08:57
Hi

Has anybody been in Greece lately and made contact with a new tax called TPP? Cry
see here:
http://www.cruising.org.uk/news/greektax

Is this in practice for 2015?
How does one pay?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote panos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 December 2014 at 10:22
I was 2 months last July and August and didn't pay any such tax.

From what I hear the IMF is pushing for the collection of the tax, the Greek parliament voted in favor but the authorities and ministry of tourism are not willing to impose this tax. So there is a strange situation!

My personal opinion is that the tax will not be collected after all. But don't take my word for it.

If you enter Greece from another Schenken country (Italy or Malta) you don't even bother about authorities and there is no practical way of collecting the tax anyway.
The previous obligation to report to harbor authorities (coast guard) in every harbor upon arrival has been relaxed. Now you pay the harbor fees (a few € ) to a local authorities representative who is coming by the boat and not to the coast guard as before. Much simpler and nobody is checking any papers.

Noonsite has all the latest info about this strange tax.
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thanks for your answer. Hug

In itself the tax is a bit strange, because if one is taking a yacht from Italy to Turkey for instance and stops at a Greek harbour or several for some resting should one have to pay the tax?
Or this tax is only intended for people spending a 'significant' amount of time at anchor or cruising Greece?
Ah, these Greeks, they invent everything... Wacko

What about DEKPA? Is it still in use? 
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Hello,
We have sailed from april till end October several times between greece and turkey last summer.
The new cruising Tax announced by the Greek gouvernment was not yet in effect during this time, dispite all the rumors by the RYA ect.
As a european flagged Yacht when entering or leaving the greek waters from our to a other Schengen country it is not
obligatory the do immigration and costums paperwork but you need a accurate crewlist(new 2014 EUR document that you can get by the immigration our coastguard if you are lucky , but by come our go to a not Schengen EU or any other country you have to visit first immigration(local police office) costums and the coastguard( harbormaster) with the boatpapers and the accurate new crewlist and pay a small amount
(We paid in Kalymnos 5 ,Samos and Kastollorizo 10 and in Rodhos 0,00 euro)
If you stay in a greek harbor you have to pay a daily fee to a representative (waterman ect, ask always for a official receipt) sometime hey will take your papers to the coastguard sometimes not, if not ,you have to present your boatpapers to the coastguard ,sometime they will collect the harbor fee sometime they don't.
The DEKPA was still in use .when we ask the coastguard about this they answer "if you have one its OK and you do not have to get a stamp every harbor but one every 2 months or so if you are sailing around in greece" and then they give us the stamps.
You can find al the info on www.yachting.yen.gr of the HELLENIC REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF SCHIPPING,MARITIME AFFAIRS &AGEAN under sailing easy in greece.
This are the greek intentions but in practice it still depends island by island, harbor by harbor and sometime it is this way sometime a other.This is Greece, we sail more than 10 years in those waters and you learn to live with it.
You find a lot of info on www.jimbsail.info/greece

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