Dutch Online News: Green Left does not want tax rises – “second package seems hopeless’

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Green Left does not want tax rises – “second package seems hopeless’ – nrc.nl

Green Left party leader Jesse Klaver. Photo ANP / Bart Size

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” A blunt measure with many adverse effects. ” That’s according to Jesse Klaver, newly minted leader of GroenLinks, the generic increase in VAT as part of the tax reform. His party looks nothing. That’s important, because GroenLinks need for support in the Senate is.

Clover announced today its commitment to tax consultations, reports news agency ANP. In addition to slide alongside the Green Left and the Christian Union D66. Clover prefers that tax reform is paid for by taxes on pollution and by tackling tax avoidance by multinationals, one of the cases where he as MP previously already occupied.

Furthermore, Klaver said not to want that all proceeds from the revision in tax cuts should be stopped, as the government is planning now. He wants the money is also used to improve the purchasing power of beneficiaries. A section must also in public services like the (home) care be inserted.

Gift for VVD

According to our political editor Tom-Jan Meeus gives Shamrock with his rejection of the VAT increase, in fact, the VVD a present and threaten the reforms already from table to disappear:

“The VVD – not Rutte, but Zijlstra and others – see those reforms have not really sat down. If you’re a little by thinking, it is now a breeze for Zijlstra to say no to the proposals of the Greens. And then the reforms of the table. Anyway, very cliché: it is only over when it’s over “

Packages

Last week, the government announced a proposal for the revision of the tax system to.. In anticipation of next year primarily reflected a reduction in costs of 5 billion euros, which would amount to 800 euros per year for an average household. The rates in the second and third tranche of the income tax return of 42 to 40 percent, the employed is increased and people with young children get more tax. This is along the so-called package 1. That comes anyway.

Package 2 would then contain measures to reform the tax system. The increase in VAT from 6 to 21 percent on everything except basic foodstuffs, which the government had yielded much criticism immediately, is part of the second package. The measure should provide 5 billion euros.