ATHENS, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Greek betting company OPAP's sales agents will go on strike on Friday and Saturday, their union said, threatening further labour action unless the government changes the way it taxes agents.
OPAP, 34 percent owned by the state, has a monopoly on sports betting and lotteries in Greece until 2020. Only its 5,300 agents can sell the company's products.
Under a new tax regime, decided in May as part of Greece's efforts to plug its fiscal gap, OPAP agents now have to keep books meaning they are taxed on their profit instead of a flat rate on their revenues.
"The (finance) ministry has not reached the solution that we want to our tax problem," the agents' union said in a statement published on their website.
The union also wants guarantees for agents' exclusive right to sell OPAP games to the public amid fears Greece's plans to open up the gaming market.
The agents have held strikes since May, hitting OPAP sales already feeling the impact of recession in austerity-hit Greece. (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Dan Lalor)