Kakali has badgered the government and a major Greek bank into promising an ATM within weeks but she still feels it may come too late for this season on an island where tourism dwarfs the two other sources of income: fishing and agriculture: “We have almost no reservations in August, when usually we have people calling us up asking to find a room and we can’t help them.” A hard winter ahead may be slightly improved by 50 workers billeted in the village to expand the harbor but there is an even bigger crisis looming because the government has said it will end a decades-old tax break for islands.
Who has said islands will stop getting their current tax breaks?
The government The islands themselves Kakali A newspaper reporter