Even before any ink has been put to paper on a solution for the Greek debt crisis the Greek Retailers Association has said the government’s budget proposals will hurt small to medium sized business and hamstring recovery. <br /><br /> Greece plans to raise corporate tax by 3 percentage points to 29 percent to secure revenues of 410 million euros in 2016.<br /><br /> Eddie Kalfayan owns a jewellery store in Athens:“All these taxes, raising our tax to 29 percent, increasing VAT, the measures all target business owners and are burdening them at a time when we are in a very bad state. We are all in the red.”<br /><br /> Greece’s economy contracted by 0.2 percent in the first quarter and Athens has a €1.6bn IMF bill looming and needs access to frozen funds to keep the wolf from eating the furniture.<br /><br /> Despite the continued hardship most Greeks are aware that sacrifices have to be made if the country wants to remain in the euro.<br /><br /> Maria owns a clothes shop in the capital:<br />“We must choose the lesser of two evils. What el
