ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has won the consent of a team of EU-IMF inspectors for its new five-year austerity plan on Thursday after committing to an additional round of tax rises and spending cuts, sources with knowledge of the talks said.
"We have a deal," said one of the sources.
Another source close to the negotiations said that a few remaining technical details would be finalized on Friday.
Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos announced on Thursday Greece's Socialist government would lower the minimum threshold for income tax to 8,000 euros a year, increase the tax on heating oil and impose a one-off solidarity levy on income of between 1 and 5 percent.
(Reporting by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Daniel Flynn)
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