Eric Wiebes Secretary (Finance) will in the coming weeks with the opposition parties to the table. Photo ANP / Martijn Beekman
The cabinet is” the coming weeks “with the opposition parties to the table to talk about reform of the tax system. Writes Eric Wiebes Secretary (Finance, VVD) this afternoon in a letter to parliament.
Wiebe says that the success of these talks “important” that the talks “in confidence” occur. According to the Minister, the government aims to “broad support” from desire to reform the tax system. “There can be only a tax reform if there is enough support from several parties.”
The opposition has existed since yesterday great irritation on the communication by the coalition parties on the negotiations on tax reform. VVD and PvdA spoke in recent days intensively together for the first time mutually agree. Wiebe said yesterday afternoon told journalists that there was “broadly” an agreement was signed between VVD and PvdA, VVD party leader but Halbe Zijlstra said not much later that the agreement is not final and that there are still technical issues to be worked out.
Slob: question is who is still in control cabinet
Wiebe wrote the House earlier this afternoon “near consensus” is that his words yesterday seemed to weaken. Opposition parties complained about the confusion. Christian Union leader Arie Slob called the affairs incredible. He expressed serious doubts “about whether there is someone in the control cabinet.”
Which means the agreement in principal we do not know yet. Zijlstra stressed that tax cuts for his group on “one, two and three” state. For the Labour Party is the lowering of taxes on labor’s most important. The intention is that by reforming 100,000 jobs to come in ten years. That should come mainly by lowering taxes on labor.
Broad support needed to reform
VVD and PvdA must first come together before they can go to the opposition. Since the coalition has no majority in the Senate, the Cabinet to reform the tax system will have to find support from D66, Christian Union and SGP (the former ‘constructive opposition’) and the Christian Democrats or the Greens. Zijlstra pointed out yesterday that the plan of the coalition is also based on the wishes of the opposition and that it is not true that the coalition expects that the partners will draw on the cross.
Whether the government can find enough support in the Senate remains a question, write our political editors Tom-Jan Meeus and Philip de Witt Wijnen afternoon in NRC Handelsblad
The preparation of both Sybrand Buma (CDA) as Jesse Klaver (GroenLinks) makes it unlikely that any of these leaders will bring the risk of interest furious at the neck. In addition, in any case, the CDA of plan is as long as possible to keep the cards against the chest. Buma says now been a few years that as opposition party does not participate in the precooking Policy
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